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.
West Oxfordshire lies within the River Thames catchment area, with the Thames itself and its tributaries including the River Evenlode and River Windrush running through the area.[1] Parts of the district suffered severe flooding during the 2007 floods in the UK.[2]
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The District of West Oxfordshire
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Aston, Cote, Shifford and Chimney ( Aston, Cote, Shifford, Chimney) • Bampton ( Lower Haddon, Weald) • Brize Norton • 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, Wilcote) • Shipton-under-Wychwood • Standlake ( Brighthampton) • Steeple Barton ( Middle Barton) • Stonesfield
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Alvescot • Ascott-under-Wychwood ( Ascott d'Oyley, Ascott Earl) • Asthall ( Asthall Leigh, Worsham) • Black Bourton • Bladon • Blenheim • Broadwell • Bruern • Cassington ( Worton) • Chadlington • Chastleton • Chilson ( Shorthampton) • Churchill • Clanfield • Combe • 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 ( Dunthrop) • Holwell • Idbury ( Bould, Foscot) • Kelmscott • Kencot • Kiddington with Asterleigh ( 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 ( Ledwell) • Sarsden • Shilton • South Leigh • Spelsbury ( Dean, Taston) • Stanton Harcourt • Swerford • Swinbrook and Widford ( Swinbrook, Widford) • Tackley • Taynton • Westcott Barton • Westwell • Wootton ( Dornford, Hordley) • Worton ( Nether Worton, Over Worton)
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Coordinates: 51°47′36″N 1°28′45″W / 51.79333°N 1.47917°W / 51.79333; -1.47917
