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... river , viz . , Uisg or Ouse ) , it may be noted that the early spelling of the name is always Oxnaford , where Oxna is the early English genitive plural , meaning ' of oxen . ' The history of the City has naturally been the first ...
... river , viz . , Uisg or Ouse ) , it may be noted that the early spelling of the name is always Oxnaford , where Oxna is the early English genitive plural , meaning ' of oxen . ' The history of the City has naturally been the first ...
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... river . It was while keeping watch over this frontier that Eadweard died in 925 at Farndon in Northants , and his son Ælfweard died soon after at Oxford . The name of Oxford tells the story of its birth . B At a point where the Thames ...
... river . It was while keeping watch over this frontier that Eadweard died in 925 at Farndon in Northants , and his son Ælfweard died soon after at Oxford . The name of Oxford tells the story of its birth . B At a point where the Thames ...
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... river offered a ford where cattle - drovers could cross the stream , and traversing the marshy fields which edged it , mount the low slope of a gravel spit between the two rivers , that formed the site of the later city . In the ...
... river offered a ford where cattle - drovers could cross the stream , and traversing the marshy fields which edged it , mount the low slope of a gravel spit between the two rivers , that formed the site of the later city . In the ...
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... rivers by which the Danes so often made their way into the heart of the country . The Danes had burnt Abingdon , and much fighting had taken place in Alfred's days on the Ashdown ridge of Berkshire , opposite Oxford . This view is ...
... rivers by which the Danes so often made their way into the heart of the country . The Danes had burnt Abingdon , and much fighting had taken place in Alfred's days on the Ashdown ridge of Berkshire , opposite Oxford . This view is ...
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... river , became a see of the South Angles in 679 ; which seems to imply that Oxfordshire was already Anglian - i.e . Mercian - and no longer adhered to Wessex . The progress of the new power is marked by the churches dedicated to the ...
... river , became a see of the South Angles in 679 ; which seems to imply that Oxfordshire was already Anglian - i.e . Mercian - and no longer adhered to Wessex . The progress of the new power is marked by the churches dedicated to the ...
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