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Numerous borings in a Cretaceous cobble, Faringdon, England; these are excellent examples of fossil bioerosion. Faringdon is a picturesque market town in the Vale of White Horse, near the Thames Valley in southern England, United Kingdom. It is located between the River Thames and the Ridgeway. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1970x818, 563 KB) Summary Photographer: User:Ballista Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ...
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Bioerosion describes the erosion of hard ocean substrates by living organisms by a number of mechanisms. ...
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On 2004-02-02, Faringdon was granted Fairtrade Town status. The town was twinned with Le Mêle-sur-Sarthe (France), in 1990. Faringdon is also the base for the Faringdon Enterprise Gateway, which is run by SEEDA to help and advise businesses in rural west Oxfordshire. Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Fairtrade Town is a status awarded by the Fairtrade Foundation in the United Kingdom and Channel Islands, describing an area which is committed to the promotion of Fairtrade-labelled goods. ...
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History
The name Faringdon means "over populated be chavs". The Anglo-Saxon kings of Wessex and later England had a palace located in Faringdon. However, claims that King Edward the Elder died there are misguided. For other uses, see Anglo-Saxon. ...
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In the Domesday book, Faringdon is recorded as a manor and a mill. The town was given a royal charter by King John in 1216. The weekly market is still held today. He also established an abbey in Faringdon, but it quickly moved to Beaulieu in Hampshire. This article is about the 11th century census. ...
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Beaulieu Abbey, Grid reference SU389026, was a Cistercian house in Hampshire, one of the three monasteries founded by King John (c. ...
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During the English Civil War, Sir Robert Pye was kept prisoner in his own home: the Faringdon House. The smaller current house was built in around 1730. The spire of All Saints' church was partly destroyed by a cannon-ball that went astray. For other uses, see English Civil War (disambiguation). ...
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The Town Hall dates from the 17th century. It remains the centre of the town and its focal point. The £1.6m three-mile A420 bypass opened in July 1979. (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ...
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Faringdon Folly Close to the East side of town is Faringdon Folly, situated atop Folly Hill (also known as Faringdon Hill), a Greensand outcrop (at grid reference SU 298957). In common with Badbury Hill, close-by to the West, it has an ancient ditched defensive ring (hill fort). This was fortified by supporters of Matilda, during her campaign to claim the throne from King Stephen. It was soon razed to the ground by Stephen. Oliver Cromwell fortified it in his unsuccessful campaign to deal with the Royalist garrison that was based on Faringdon House. The Pye family had Scots Pines planted around the summit, around the time that Faringdon House was rebuilt. This creates a conspicuous and recognisable landmark that can be seen from afar, including from the Vale of White Horse, the White Horse Hill, the Berkshire Downs, near Lockinge and the Cotswold Hills, to the North. The folly itself was built by Lord Berners in 1935. It is 100 feet high and affords panoramic views of the Vale of White Horse. During the Second World War, it was used by the Home Guard as an observation post. In 1982, it was restored by Robert Heber-Percy and handed over to the town, in Trust. Near the top of London Street situated close to the actual Faringdon Folly is the pub bearing the same name. Resembling a small living room with a bar placed in the middle it is a popular haunt for many of the town's young citizens. For other uses, see Folly (disambiguation). ...
Greensand is an olive-green coloured sandstone rock which found in narrow bands, particularly associated with bands of chalk and clay in northern and western Europe. ...
Badbury Hill from the West Badbury Hill, also known locally as Badbury Clump, is situated to the west of Faringdon, Oxfordshire, England, above the village of Great Coxwell. ...
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The Vale of White Horse is a local government district of Oxfordshire in England. ...
The Uffington White Horse is a highly stylised hill figure, 374 feet (110 m) long, cut out of the turf on the upper slopes of Uffington Castle, a largely Iron Age hill fort near The Ridgeway, in the civil parish of Uffington in the English county of Oxfordshire (formerly Berkshire). ...
The North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) is located in the English counties of Berkshire, Hampshire, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire. ...
The Cotswolds are a range of hills in central England, sometimes called the heart of England, a hilly area reaching nearly 300 m or 1000 feet. ...
The Barony of Berners is a barony by writ in the Peerage of England. ...
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Transport
Buses Faringdon is connected to Wantage by a regular bus service. The journey takes approximately 30 minutes and connects intervening villages to the two towns. As of 2007, the service is not heavily used and is in danger of being withdrawn. Faringdon is also connected to Swindon and Oxford by regular bus services. , , Wantage is a town and civil parish in the Vale of the White Horse, near the Thames Valley, in the English county of Oxfordshire (formerly in Berkshire), and approximately 10 miles south-southwest of Oxford. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
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Railway A 3.5 mile branch line was opened in 1864, between Faringdon and the Great Western Railway (GWR) at Uffington, with construction funded by the Faringdon Railway Company (purchased outright by the GWR in 1886). Passenger traffic peaked in 1913, but later declined to such extent that the passenger service was withdrawn in 1951. Freight traffic continued to use the line until the Beeching cuts of 1964. The station building is still extant, having been used for various commercial purposes (currently a nursery school). The original Bristol Temple Meads station, first terminus of the GWR, is the building to the left of this picture The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company, linking South West England, the West Country and South Wales with London. ...
Many railway lines were closed as a result of the Beeching Axe The Beeching Axe is an informal name for the British Governments attempt in the 1960s to reduce the cost of running the British railway system. ...
Geology Faringdon is home to the famous Faringdon Sponge Gravel, a Cretaceous unit filled with spectacular fossil sponges, other invertebrates, a few vertebrate bones and teeth, and wonderful examples of bioerosion. // The Cretaceous Period is one of the major divisions of the geologic timescale, reaching from the end of the Jurassic Period (i. ...
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Attractions Faringdon has many attractions such as the local spa which is home to the only supply of sweets, with no real food in them, left in the uk. There is also presentations, which is a ledge gift shop and is really nice and you can by your mum christmas presents from there. Sandwhich Phillers is really yummy. :D
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