The Faringdon branch was a 3+1⁄2-mile-long branch line from Uffington Station to Faringdon in the Vale of White Horse, in Oxfordshire. The line was authorised...
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Faringdon /ˈfærɪŋdən/ is a historic market town in the Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England, 18 miles (29 km) south-west of Oxford, 10 miles (16 km)...
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Oxfordshire, England and was on the Faringdon branch line. The line was opened on 1 June 1864, between Faringdon and the Great Western Railway (GWR) at...
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12 miles (19 km) from Paddington to West Drayton, including the Airport branch, as part of the Crossrail project. There are calls for the reintroduction...
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railway lines and other works prior to their opening. These included the Faringdon branch of the GWR (May 1864), the Sidmouth Railway (June 1874), the Ribblehead...
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Challow railway station (redirect from Faringdon Road railway station)
1840, Faringdon Road station was opened. After the Faringdon Railway between Uffington and Faringdon opened in 1864, the GWR renamed Faringdon Road "Challow"...
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became a junction as the Faringdon Railway opened between there and the town of Faringdon. In 1886 the GWR took over the Faringdon Railway. The station closed...
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in Great Britain Beeching cuts Morrison, Brian (ed.). "The Meldon Quarry Branch". Modern Railways Pictorial, 1986. Ian Allan. p. 16. ISBN 0-7110-1510-4...
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Gerald Goodlake (category People from Faringdon)
forces. Gerald Goodlake was the son of Thomas Mills Goodlake of Wadley at Faringdon in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire) and his wife, Emilia Maria, the daughter...
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to the Global Challenges. Italy: Comunità Internazionale, SIOI, 2007. Faringdon, Hugh. Strategic Geography: NATO, the Warsaw Pact, and the Superpowers...
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3 July 2009. Retrieved 4 July 2009. "John Thorneloe Obituary (2019) - Faringdon, Berkshire - The Times". www.legacy.com. Retrieved 18 August 2021. Cothill...
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reduction in size, with northern and western areas, including the town of Faringdon, being transferred to Witney, it was reformed as Didcot and Wantage, to...
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Oxford, Witney and Fairford Railway (redirect from Fairford branch)
Railway was originally conceived as a through line from Faringdon to Cheltenham, with a branch to Witney. It obtained an authorising act of Parliament...
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White Horse, Oxfordshire, England, about 5 miles (8 km) south-west of Faringdon. The village is close to the county boundary with Wiltshire and about...
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Branch, covering Dorchester on Thames and Thame area Vale of the White Horse Branch, in the Shrivenham and Faringdon area Witney and Woodstock Branch...
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Badeisley Preceptory Beaulieu Abbey ^ Cistercian monks transferred from Faringdon Abbey, Berkshire daughter of Citeaux; founded 2 November 1203 (1204) by...
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junction station in 1890 upon the opening of the Blenheim and Woodstock Branch Line, and served the area for over 100 years before falling victim to the...
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Archived from the original on 8 August 2007. Retrieved 30 July 2010. Faringdon, Hugh. (1989) Strategic Geography Routledge. ISBN 0-415-00980-4 "CyberCity...
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Cherwell Valley line Abingdon Junction Abingdon Road Halt Hinksey Halt Wycombe Railway Iffley Halt Short branches Abingdon Faringdon Wallingford Wantage...
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1952), Chippenham (to 1964), Malmesbury (to 1951), Marlborough (to 1961), Faringdon (to 1951) SW Closed to steam 1965 82D 1949–1963 Westbury Sub-sheds Frome...
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prior to 1659 Farringdon Road – from Sir William or Nicholas de Farnedon/Faringdon, local sheriffs or aldermen in the 13th century Gray's Inn Road – from...
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Col. the Hon. Thomas Maurice Ponsonby (1930–2001) of The Common, Little Faringdon, Lechlade, late Royal Wessex Yeomanry, High Sheriff of Gloucestershire...
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listed buildings. One of the last houses to be built, 34 Faringdon Road, originally 1 Faringdon Street, has been restored to the condition it was in around...
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made progress against Matilda's forces in the west in 1145, recapturing Faringdon Castle in Oxfordshire. Matilda authorised Reginald, the Earl of Cornwall...
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1081 – 1151) John Beche (d. 1539) Richard Whiting (d. 1539) Hugh Cook Faringdon (d. 1539) Sigebert Buckley (c. 1520 – c. 1610) John Roberts (1577–1610)...
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Unused Ran along Gravel Walk from the A417 to the A420 (now B4019) in Faringdon; this became part of a rerouted A417, while the old route of the A417...
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Strategy on Biological Diversity" (PDF). BfN. Retrieved 3 March 2015. Faringdon, Hugh (1986). Confrontation: the Strategic Geography of NATO and the Warsaw...
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John Thackray Bunce (category People from Faringdon)
1862, and of the Birmingham Post from 1862 to 1898. Bunce was born in Faringdon, Berkshire, to John Bunce, watchmaker and silversmith, and his wife, Mary...
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from Wallingford in the County of Berks to Wantage, and from thence to Faringdon, and also from Wantage to Idson in the said County, so far as the same...
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Chalvey Halt was a short-lived railway station on the Great Western Railway branch from Slough to Windsor & Eton. It was situated just to the north of the...
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