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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);

Born

William Beechey (English, 1753-1839)

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