West Oxfordshire is a local government district in north west Oxfordshire, England including towns such as Woodstock, Burford, Chipping Norton, Charlbury, and Witney (where the council is based).
The area is mainly rural downland and forest, the main activities being farming and associated trades.
The district was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, by a merger of the municipal boroughs of Chipping Norton and Witney urban district, and Chipping Norton Rural District and Witney Rural District.
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The District of West Oxfordshire |
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| Oxfordshire • County Council elections • District Council elections • Witney County Constituency |
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| Towns |
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Aston, Cote, Shifford and Chimney ( Aston, Cote, Shifford, Chimney) • Bampton (Lower Haddon, Weald) • Brize Norton • Chadlington • Ducklington • Enstone ( Church Enstone, Neat Enstone, Chalford, Cleveley, Fulwell, Gagingwell, Lidstone, Radford) • Eynsham ( Barnard Gate) • Freeland • Hailey (New Yatt) • Hanborough ( Church Hanborough, Long Hanborough) • Milton-under-Wychwood • Minster Lovell • North Leigh (East End) • Shipton-under-Wychwood • Standlake ( Brighthampton) • Steeple Barton • Stonesfield
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Other Civil
Parishes
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Villages
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Alvescot • Ascott-under-Wychwood ( Ascott d'Oyley, Ascott Earl) • Asthall ( Worsham) • Black Bourton • Bladon • Blenheim • Broadwell • Bruern • Cassington ( Worton) • Chastleton • Chilson ( Shorthampton) • Churchill • Clanfield • Combe Longa • Cornbury and Wychwood (Cornbury, Wychwood) • Cornwell • Crawley • Curbridge • Fawler • Fifield • Filkins and Broughton Poggs ( Filkins, Broughton Poggs) • Finstock • Fulbrook • Glympton • Grafton and Radcot ( Grafton, Radcot) • Great Tew • Hardwick-with-Yelford (Hardwick, Yelford) • Heythrop • Holwell • Idbury ( Bould, Foscot) • Kelmscott • Kencot • Kiddington with Asterleigh ( Kiddington, Over Kiddington) • Kingham • Langford • Leafield • Lew • Little Faringdon • Little Tew • Lyneham • Northmoor • Over Norton • Ramsden (Mount Skippett) • Rollright ( Great Rollright, Little Rollright) • Rousham • Salford • Sandford St. Martin • Sarsden • Shilton • South Leigh • Spelsbury ( Dean, Taston) • Stanton Harcourt • Swerford • Swinbrook and Widford ( Swinbrook, Widford) • Tackley • Taynton • Westcot Barton • Westwell • Wootton
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Former Districts
and Boroughs |
Chipping Norton Rural District • Municipal Borough of Chipping Norton • Witney Urban District • Witney Rural District • Municipal Borough of Woodstock • Woodstock Rural District
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Former
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| List of Parliamentary constituencies in Oxfordshire • List of places in Oxfordshire • List of civil parishes in Oxfordshire |
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Coordinates: 51°47′36″N 1°28′45″W / 51.79333°N 1.47917°W / 51.79333; -1.47917
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