West Oxfordshire

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West Oxfordshire District
Shown within Oxfordshire
Geography
Status:	District
Region:	South East England
Admin. County:	Oxfordshire
Area: - Total	Ranked 53rd 714.40 km²
Admin. HQ:	Witney
ONS code:	38UF
Demographics
Population: - Total (2007 est.) - Density	Ranked 218th 101,600 142 / km²
Ethnicity:	98.4% White
Politics
West Oxfordshire District Council http://www.westoxon.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:	Conservative
MP:	David Cameron

West Oxfordshire is a local government district in north west Oxfordshire, England including towns such as Woodstock, 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 April 1, 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.

v • d • e The District of West Oxfordshire Oxfordshire • County Council elections • District Council elections • Witney County Constituency Towns Burford • Carterton • Charlbury • Chipping Norton • Witney (Madley Park) • Woodstock Large Villages Aston, Cote, Shifford and Chimney (Aston, Cote, Shifford, Old Shifford, Chimney) • Bampton • Brize Norton • Chadlington • Ducklington • Enstone (Church Enstone, Neat Enstone, Chalford, Cleveley, Fulwell, Gagingwell, Lidstone, Radford) • Eynsham (Barnard Gate) • Freeland • Hailey • Hanborough (Church Hanborough, Long Hanborough) • Milton-under-Wychwood • Minster Lovell • North Leigh • Shipton-under-Wychwood • Standlake (Brighthampton) • Steeple Barton • Stonesfield Other Civil Parishes (Component Villages and Hamlets) Alvescot • Ascott-under-Wychwood (Ascott d'Oyley, Ascott Earl) • Asthal • Black Bourton • Bladon • Blenheim • Broadwell • Bruern • Cassington • 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 Rollright • Great Tew • Hardwick-with-Yelford (Hardwick, Yelford) • Heythrop • Holwell • Idbury (Bould) • Kelmscott • Kencot • Kiddington with Asterleigh (Kiddington, Asterleigh) • Kingham • Langford • Leafield • Lew • Little Faringdon • Little Tew • Lyneham • Northmoor • Over Norton • Ramsden • Rollright • Rousham • Salford • Sandford St. Martin • Sarsden • Shilton • South Leigh • Spelsbury (Dean, Fulwell, Taston) • Stanton Harcourt • Swerford • Swinbrook and Widford (Swinbrook, Widford) • Tackley • Taynton • Westcot Barton • Westwell • Wootton • Worton 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 Former Constituencies Oxfordshire County Constituency • Woodstock Borough Constituency • Mid Oxfordshire or Woodstock County Constituency • Banbury County Constituency • Henley County Constituency • Mid Oxfordshire County Constituency List of Parliamentary constituencies in Oxfordshire • List of places in Oxfordshire • List of civil parishes in Oxfordshire

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