Burford
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- Names
Burford
Bureford
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- 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.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Domesday Book (1985); Gazetteer of Great Britain (1999); Getty Vocabulary Program rules; NGA/NIMA database (2003-); Times Atlas of the World (1994);
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