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Burford
Burford is a small middle ages community on the River Windrush, in the Cotswold hillsides, in the West Oxfordshire area of Oxfordshire, England. It is typically referred to as the 'portal' to the Cotswolds. Burford is located 18 miles (29 km) west of Oxford and also 22 miles (35 kilometres) southeast of Cheltenham, concerning 2 miles (3 km) from the Gloucestershire border. The toponym stems from the Old English words burh indicating prepared town or hilltown and ford, the going across of a river. The 2011 Census recorded the population of Burford parish as 1,410 and also Burford Ward as 1,847. The town centre's most significant structure is the Church of St John the Baptist, a Church of England parish church, which is a Quality I noted structure. Defined by David Verey as "a complex building which has actually created in a curious means from the Norman", it is understood for its merchants' guild chapel, memorial to Henry VIII's barber-surgeon, Edmund Harman, featuring South American Indians and Kempe stained glass. In 1649 the church was used as a prison during the Civil War, when the New Model Army Banbury mutineers were held there. A few of the 340 prisoners left makings and graffiti, which still make it through in the church. The community centre additionally has some 15th-century residences and also the baroque design townhouse that is now Burford Methodist Church. Between the 14th as well as 17th centuries Burford was necessary for its wool trade. The Tolsey, midway along Burford's High Street, which was as soon as the centerpiece for trade, is now a museum.
