Upton
Upton is a hamlet in the civil parish of Burford, in the West Oxfordshire district, in Oxfordshire, England, on the River Windrush about 1 mile west of Burford.- Type: Hamlet
- Description: hamlet in West Oxfordshire, UK
- Also known as: “Upton, Oxfordshire” and “Upton, West Oxfordshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Burford Tolsey Museum and Burford Library.
Burford Tolsey Museum
Museum
Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Burford Tolsey Museum is a local museum in the town of Burford, west Oxfordshire, 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.
Church of St John the Baptist, Burford
Church
Photo: Tilman2007, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Anglican Church of St John the Baptist in Burford, Oxfordshire, 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 Signet.
Taynton
Village
Photo: andrew auger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Taynton 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.
Signet
Hamlet
Signet is a hamlet on the A361 road just over 1 mile south of Burford in Oxfordshire, England. Until 1954 Signet was part of the civil parish of Upton and Signet, which was absorbed into Burford to create the civil parish of Burford and Upton and Signet.
Westwell
Village
Photo: Tom Robinson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Westwell is a small village and civil parish about 2 miles southwest of the market town of Burford in Oxfordshire. It is the westernmost village in the county, close to the border with Gloucestershire. Westwell is situated 2 miles southwest of Upton.
Upton
- Category: locality
- Location: Burford, West Oxfordshire District, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.81062° or 51° 48′ 38″ northLongitude
-1.65016° or 1° 39′ 1″ westOpen location code
9C3WR86X+6WOpenStreetMap ID
node 2255663804OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletWikidata ID
Q7899360
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