Oxfordshire
Details
- Names
Oxfordshire
Oxon
- Place Type
- county
- Description
- Area covers most of Thames Valley; contains many Paleolithic and Neolithic artifacts; part of Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex and Mercia; ruled by Danes 10th-11th centuries; site of battles during English Civil War; area includes a portion of Berkshire since 1974.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- BIAB Online (1999-2000); Canby, Historic Places (1984); Curious Fox: UK Counties and Shires [online] (2002).; Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); Gazetteer of Great Britain (1999); NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998); Oxford English Reference Dictionary (1996); Royal Mail: PAF Digest [online] (2002); UK Counties and Regions Abbreviations [online] (1997-1998); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984);
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