Garford
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Garford is a village and civil parish about west of Abingdon. It was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire. The parish is bounded by the River Ock to the north, by two tributaries of the Ock to the south (Childrey Brook and Nor Brook), and by field boundaries and the road between Kingston Bagpuize and West Hanney to the west. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 229.
Key facts
- UK place.official_name
- Garford
- UK place.static_image_name
- St Luke, Garford - geograph.org.uk - 1543548.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- St Luke's chapel, seen from the southwest
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SU4296
- UK place.label_position
- left
- UK place.population
- 229
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011 Census)
- UK place.civil_parish
- Garford
- UK place.shire_district
- Vale of White Horse
- UK place.shire_county
- Oxfordshire
- UK place.region
- South East England
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.post_town
- Abingdon
- UK place.postcode_area
- OX
- UK place.postcode_district
- OX13
- UK place.dial_code
- 01235
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Witney
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- Archaeology
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- Economic history
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Garford is a village and civil parish about west of Abingdon. It was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire. The parish is bounded by the River Ock to the north, by two tributaries of the Ock to the south (Childrey Brook and Nor Brook), and by field boundaries and the road between Kingston Bagpuize and West Hanney to the west. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 229.
==Archaeology== The course of a Roman road passes through the parish about east of the village.
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