South East England
Oxfordshire
Cherwell

Banbury

Banbury is a market town in the Cherwell district of . It is known for the nursery rhyme "Ride-a-cock-horse" and Banbury cakes. The local football team is Banbury United and they play at the Spencer stadium.
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  • Type: Town with 48,700 residents
  • Description: market town and civil parish on the River Cherwell in Oxfordshire, England
  • Also known as: “Banbury, Oxfordshire”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Banbury railway station and Castle Quay Shopping Centre.

Railway station
Photo: Andy F, Public domain.
serves the historic market town of Banbury in , . The station is a stop on the Chiltern Main Line; it is operated by Chiltern Railways and has four platforms in use.

Shopping center
Photo: Alan Cooper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a shopping centre in the town of Banbury, North , . The shopping centre is located in the centre of Banbury by the , off Castle Street. and are also located here.

Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.
Tooley's Boatyard is a dockyard on the in the centre of the town of Banbury, , . The opening of the Oxford Canal from Hawkesbury Junction to Banbury on 30 March 1778 gave the town a cheap and reliable supply of coal.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Drayton and Overthorpe.

Village
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is a village and civil parish in the valley of the Sor Brook in , about 2 miles northwest of Banbury. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 242.

Village
is a village and civil parish in , about 2 miles east of Banbury in and 1 mile southeast of junction 11 of the M40 motorway.

Suburb
is an inner housing estate and part of the greater ward of Banbury, in the district, in the county of , England. It is one of the oldest areas in Banbury, having first been first recorded as a hamlet in the 13th century.

Banbury

Latitude
52.0602° or 52° 3′ 37″ north
Longitude
-1.3403° or 1° 20′ 25″ west
Population
48,700
Elevation
328 feet (100 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB BAB
Open location code
9C4W3M65+3V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 13797765
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2656406
Wiki­data ID
Q806160
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Banbury” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بانبوري”
  • Armenian: “Բանբերի”
  • Armenian: “Բարնբերի”
  • Basque: “Banbury”
  • Bengali: “বানবুরি”
  • Bulgarian: “Банбъри”
  • Catalan: “Banbury”
  • Cebuano: “Banbury”
  • Chinese: “Banbury”
  • Chinese: “班伯里”
  • Chinese: “班布利”
  • Chinese: “賓巴利”
  • Czech: “Banbury”
  • Danish: “Banbury”
  • Dutch: “Banbury”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بانبورى”
  • Esperanto: “Banbury”
  • French: “Banbury”
  • Galician: “Banbury”
  • Georgian: “ბენბერი”
  • German: “Banbury”
  • Gujarati: “બનબરી”
  • Hebrew: “בנבורי”
  • Hungarian: “Banbury”
  • Irish: “Banbury”
  • Italian: “Banbury”
  • Japanese: “バンベリー”
  • Kannada: “ಬಾನ್ಬರಿ”
  • Korean: “밴버리”
  • Ladin: “Banbury”
  • Latvian: “Benberi”
  • Lithuanian: “Banberis”
  • Lithuanian: “Banbury”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Banbury”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Banbury”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Banbury”
  • Norwegian: “Banbury”
  • Persian: “بنبری”
  • Polish: “Banbury”
  • Portuguese: “Banbury”
  • Romanian: “Banbury”
  • Russian: “Банбери”
  • Scots: “Banbury”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Banbury”
  • Silesian: “Banbury”
  • Slovenian: “Banbury”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بنبری”
  • Spanish: “Banbury”
  • Swedish: “Banbury”
  • Tamil: “பான்பிரி”
  • Telugu: “బాన్ బెర్రీ”
  • Turkish: “Banbury”
  • Ukrainian: “Банбері”
  • Urdu: “بانبوری”
  • Urdu: “بینبری”
  • Volapük: “Banbury”
  • Welsh: “Banbri”
  • Welsh: “Banbury”

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