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The English Administrative County of Oxfordshire (3971 words) |
 | The County of Oxfordshire is located in The Midland Counties of England, it covers an administrative area of 2,605Km² and in 2001 was home to a population of 605,488 persons, that represents 1.23% of that of England and 1.03% of the population of the entire United Kingdom. |
| Oxfordshire is so rich in rivers and water meadows that the visitor will get a better sense of the countyÂ’s unique atmosphere and gain a better notion of its historic past and vigorous present by wandering along its river banks than by any other means. |
| Perhaps most loved of all the Oxfordshire waters that feed the Thames is the Windrush, which enters the county just west of Burford, and flows past the enchanting hamlets of Widford and Swinbrook, Asthal and Minster Lovell to join the Thames at Newbridge. |
| West Gallery Churches: Index for Oxfordshire (2596 words) |
| The pulpit and box-pews were removed by the local curate in 1859, and the remaining Georgian features are the west gallery, the coved and panelled ceiling, the stone ball finial on the roof, and the weather vane. |
| Drastic alterations in 1859, in which the pulpit was removed to the west wall from the South, the galleries were altered or rebuilt against the other three walls and the seating renewed. |
| The entrance is at the west end in a two-stories porch which incorporates the gallery staircase; there are four small windows at two levels in the west wall. |
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