South East England
Oxfordshire
West Oxfordshire District

Burford

Burford is a picturesque town known as the "gateway to the ", a predominantly rural landscape with stone-built villages, historical towns and stately homes and gardens.
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  • Type: Town with 1,180 residents
  • Description: town and civil parish in West Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire, England
  • Also known as: “Burford, Oxfordshire” and “Burford, Oxon”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Burford Tolsey Museum and Burford Library.

Museum
Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The is a local museum in the town of Burford, west , England. It is located in a Tudor style structure, known as The Tolsey, and was formerly where market tolls were collected and where town meetings may have been held in the upper chamber.

Library
Photo: Rodw, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Church
Photo: Dave Hitchborne, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Anglican Church of St John the Baptist in Burford, , England, is a Grade I listed building. The Church of England parish church is dedicated to Saint John the Baptist, and is described by David Verey as "a complicated building which has developed in a curious way from the Norman".

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Taynton and Widford.

Village
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is a village and civil parish about 1+1⁄2 miles northwest of Burford in West Oxfordshire. The village is on Coombe Brook, a tributary of the River Windrush.

Hamlet
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is a deserted medieval village in the civil parish of , in the West Oxfordshire district of , England. It is on the River Windrush about 1.5 miles east of Burford.

Village
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is a small village and civil parish about 2 miles southwest of the market town of Burford in . It is the westernmost village in the county, close to the border with . is situated 2 miles southwest of Burford.

Burford

Latitude
51.8082° or 51° 48′ 30″ north
Longitude
-1.6358° or 1° 38′ 9″ west
Population
1,180
Elevation
351 feet (107 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB UFD
Open location code
9C3WR957+7M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 14336562
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2654312
Wiki­data ID
Q2019274
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Welsh—“Burford” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Burford”
  • Basque: “Burford”
  • Bengali: “বুরফোর্ড”
  • Bulgarian: “Бърфорд”
  • Catalan: “Burford”
  • Cebuano: “Burford”
  • Chinese: “Burford”
  • Chinese: “伯福德”
  • Chinese: “布尔福特”
  • Chinese: “布爾福特”
  • Czech: “Burford”
  • Dutch: “Burford”
  • Esperanto: “Burford”
  • French: “Burford”
  • German: “Burford”
  • Gujarati: “બર્ફોર્ડ”
  • Hebrew: “ברפורד”
  • Irish: “Burford”
  • Italian: “Burford”
  • Japanese: “バーフォード”
  • Kannada: “ಬರ್ಫೋರ್ಡ್”
  • Korean: “버퍼드”
  • Ladin: “Burford”
  • Lithuanian: “Burfordas”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Burford (Oxfordshire)”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Burford”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Beorgford”
  • Persian: “بورفورد”
  • Polish: “Burford”
  • Portuguese: “Burford”
  • Romanian: “Burford”
  • Russian: “Барфорд”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Burford”
  • Slovak: “Burford”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بورفورد”
  • Spanish: “Burford”
  • Swedish: “Burford”
  • Tamil: “புரிபோர்ட”
  • Telugu: “బుర్ఫోర్డ్”
  • Turkish: “Burford”
  • Urdu: “برفورڈ”
  • Volapük: “Burford”
  • Welsh: “Burford”
  • “Burford”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Burford”. Photo: David McDermott, CC BY 2.0.