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Items in Oxfordshire taken from Harmsworth’s Encyclopædia (1904) (results page 1)


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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Plan of Oxford from circa 1900
Oxford and its Colleges
Overview map of Oxfordshire, England
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Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Oxfordshire; England