Burford
Burford is a little medieval town on the River Windrush, in the Cotswold hillsides, in the West Oxfordshire area of Oxfordshire, England. It is usually referred to as the 'entrance' to the Cotswolds. Burford is located 18 miles (29 km) west of Oxford as well as 22 miles (35 kilometres) southeast of Cheltenham, about 2 miles (3 km) from the Gloucestershire limit. The toponym originates from the Old English words burh meaning fortified town or hilltown and also ford, the going across of a river. The 2011 Census recorded the population of Burford parish as 1,410 and also Burford Ward as 1,847. The community centre's most remarkable building is the Church of St John the Baptist, a Church of England parish church, which is a Grade I listed structure. Explained by David Verey as "a challenging building which has actually developed in an interested method from the Norman", it is understood for its sellers' guild church, memorial to Henry VIII's barber-surgeon, Edmund Harman, featuring South American Indians as well as Kempe tarnished glass. In 1649 the church was made use of as a jail throughout the Civil War, when the New Model Army Banbury mutineers were held there. A few of the 340 detainees left makings and graffiti, which still survive in the church. The town centre likewise has some 15th-century residences as well as the baroque design condominium that is currently Burford Methodist Church. In between the 14th and also 17th centuries Burford was important for its woollen profession. The Tolsey, midway along Burford's High Street, which was when the centerpiece for profession, is now a gallery.