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Dorchester on Thames (or Dorchester-on-Thames) is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire, about 3 miles (5 km) northwest of Wallingford and 8 miles (13 km) southeast of Oxford. The town is a few hundred yards from the confluence of the River Thames and River Thame. A common practice of the scholars at Oxford was to refer to the river Thames ...
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The Abbey Church of St Peter and St Paul, more usually called Dorchester Abbey, is a Church of England parish church in Dorchester on Thames, Oxfordshire, about 8 miles (13 km) southeast of Oxford. It was formerly a Norman abbey church and was built on the site of a Saxon cathedral .
The Bishop of Dorchester, along with the Bishop of Buckingham and the Bishop of Reading, assists the Diocesan Bishop of Oxford in overseeing the diocese. The title takes its name from the town of Dorchester-on-Thames in Oxfordshire , and was first used by the historic Bishops of Dorchester: at first for a West Saxon diocese (see Bishop of ...
Dorchester, Dorset, the county town of Dorset Dorchester (UK Parliament constituency), a former parliamentary constituency in Dorset; HM Prison Dorchester, a men's prison located in Dorchester in Dorset, England closed in December 2013; Dorchester on Thames, Oxfordshire, a village; The Dorchester, a luxury hotel in London
It lies about 2 miles (3 km) south of Bicester, in the northwest corner of the civil parish of Wendlebury in the English county of Oxfordshire. [3] Alchester had a strategic location in Roman Britain at a crossroads on the Silchester–Dorchester on Thames–Towcester road and the Cirencester–St Albans road (Akeman Street).
Bridge and Retaining Walls to Middle Moat at Beckley Park: Beckley, Beckley and Stowood: Wall: 16th century: 18 July 1963: 1047643: Bridge and Retaining Walls to Middle Moat at Beckley Park
The see of Leicester was transferred to Dorchester, now in Oxfordshire, sometime between 869 and 888. After an interruption, the see of Lindsey was resumed until it was united with the bishopric of Dorchester in the early 11th century. The diocese was the largest in England, extending from the River Thames to the Humber Estuary.