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... road through the stream , by which men might fare across safely . A name of exactly similar meaning - Hrythera ford , that is , cattle - ford - occurs in an Abingdon charter ; names with rother such as Rotherhithe are still common . It ...
... road through the stream , by which men might fare across safely . A name of exactly similar meaning - Hrythera ford , that is , cattle - ford - occurs in an Abingdon charter ; names with rother such as Rotherhithe are still common . It ...
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... road ran some way to the eastward , from the junction of the Thame at Dorchester , due north , near Shotover , to Alchester and Bicester , as the Romans carried their roads along the high ground in order to secure the military command ...
... road ran some way to the eastward , from the junction of the Thame at Dorchester , due north , near Shotover , to Alchester and Bicester , as the Romans carried their roads along the high ground in order to secure the military command ...
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... road ( afterwards called the Port Street or Town Road ) probably ran through the gap along the gravel ridge , and , skirting St. Frideswide's on its western side , caine down to the ford near Folly Bridge . The legend of St. Frideswide ...
... road ( afterwards called the Port Street or Town Road ) probably ran through the gap along the gravel ridge , and , skirting St. Frideswide's on its western side , caine down to the ford near Folly Bridge . The legend of St. Frideswide ...
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... road running from north to south was , later on , crossed at right angles by the line of the present High Street ... roads ( afterwards called Carfax the four ways ) , at the highest point on the gravel bank ; and it became the nucleus ...
... road running from north to south was , later on , crossed at right angles by the line of the present High Street ... roads ( afterwards called Carfax the four ways ) , at the highest point on the gravel bank ; and it became the nucleus ...
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... road out of Oxford , as St. Mary Magdalen stood in the middle of the northern road outside the North Gate ; but St. Clement's was cleared away in 1827 and a new church erected in the meadows by the Cherwell , near the Marston road ...
... road out of Oxford , as St. Mary Magdalen stood in the middle of the northern road outside the North Gate ; but St. Clement's was cleared away in 1827 and a new church erected in the meadows by the Cherwell , near the Marston road ...
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