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Burford


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Alternate Name
Bureford
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Burford

Bureford

Place Type
political
Description
Small Cotswold town where Oliver Cromwell supressed mutiny of Parliamentary troops in 1647. It was a wool center in the 16th century and a horseracing center in the 17th-19th centuries.
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Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN)

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