Burford
Burford is a tiny middle ages community on the River Windrush, in the Cotswold hillsides, in the West Oxfordshire district of Oxfordshire, England. It is often referred to as the 'gateway' to the Cotswolds. Burford is located 18 miles (29 km) west of Oxford and 22 miles (35 kilometres) southeast of Cheltenham, regarding 2 miles (3 kilometres) from the Gloucestershire limit. The toponym stems from the Old English words burh suggesting prepared community or hilltown and also ford, the crossing of a river. The 2011 Census recorded the population of Burford parish as 1,410 as well as Burford Ward as 1,847. The community centre's most notable building is the Church of St John the Baptist, a Church of England parish church, which is a Grade I noted building. Explained by David Verey as "a complicated structure which has developed 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 discolored glass. In 1649 the church was made use of as a prison throughout the Civil War, when the New Model Army Banbury mutineers were held there. A few of the 340 detainees left carvings as well as graffiti, which still make it through in the church. The town centre additionally has some 15th-century homes as well as the baroque style condominium that is now Burford Methodist Church. In between the 14th as well as 17th centuries Burford was important for its woollen profession. The Tolsey, midway along Burford's High Street, which was once the prime focus for profession, is now a museum.
