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Oxfordshire, a S. midland county of England, stretching on the N. bank of the Thames between Gloucester and Buckingham; is an agricultural district; bleak in the N. and W., it is hilly, well wooded and picturesque in the S., where are the Chiltern Hills; iron-stone is mined near Banbury, blankets made at Witney, and paper at Shiplake and Henley; natives of the county were Edward the Confessor, Leland, Warren Hastings, Maria Edgeworth, and J. R. Green.

Population (1907) 186,000

From Nuttall Encylopædia, 1907

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Sulgrave Manor
Frontispiece: Magdalen Tower.
Front Cover, Oxford Pictured by Haslehust, described by How
Sheldonian Theatre from Title Page
Frontispiece: Sulgrave Manor
Frontispiece
View of Oxford
II.—Brasenose College Quadrangle and St. Mary’s Spire
Godstowe
III.—View in Radcliffe Square
Folly Bridge
Oxford Castle
IV.—Sheldonian Theatre, etc., Broad Street
Bocardo, destroyed in 1771.
Bocardo, North Side
Isis and Oxford Canal
VII.—Merton College: The Library Interior
396.—Tower of Oxford Castle
397.—Oxford Castle
Broughton Castle
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Places Shown

Brasenose College; Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Broughton; Banbury; Oxfordshire; England

Cumnor; Oxfordshire; England

Godstowe; Oxfordshire; England

Magdalen College; Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Merton College; Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Sulgrave; Oxfordshire; England