Shirburn, Oxfordshire

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Shirburn is a village in Oxfordshire

Other current and historical names

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Shirburn within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Shirburn in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Shirburn, par. and vil., Oxfordshire, 1 mile NE. of Watlington and 6 miles S. of Thame, 2421 ac., pop. 313; Shirburn Castle (1332), the seat of the Earl of Macclesfield, succeeded an older fortress, which was the meeting-place (1321) of the insurgent barons under the Earl of Lancaster. Shurburn Hill is a projection of the Chilterns.

Shirburn in the Domesday Book

A village in Pyrton hundred, in the county of Berkshire.

Two manors recorded in Domesday.

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