Burford
Burford is a little medieval town on the River Windrush, in the Cotswold hillsides, in the West Oxfordshire district of Oxfordshire, England. It is commonly described as the 'gateway' to the Cotswolds. Burford is located 18 miles (29 km) west of Oxford and 22 miles (35 km) southeast of Cheltenham, about 2 miles (3 km) from the Gloucestershire limit. The toponym stems from the Old English words burh indicating prepared community or hilltown and ford, the going across of a river. The 2011 Census recorded the population of Burford parish as 1,410 as well as Burford Ward as 1,847. The town centre's most noteworthy building is the Church of St John the Baptist, a Church of England parish church, which is a Grade I provided structure. Explained by David Verey as "a complicated structure which has actually established in an interested means from the Norman", it is understood for its sellers' guild chapel, memorial to Henry VIII's barber-surgeon, Edmund Harman, including South American Indians as well as Kempe stained glass. In 1649 the church was made use of as a jail during the Civil War, when the New Model Army Banbury mutineers were held there. A few of the 340 detainees left carvings and graffiti, which still survive in the church. The town centre also has some 15th-century homes and the baroque design condominium that is currently Burford Methodist Church. In between the 14th and also 17th centuries Burford was necessary for its wool trade. The Tolsey, midway along Burford's High Street, which was as soon as the focal point for profession, is now a gallery.
