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Duxford, Oxfordshire

Hamlet in Oxfordshire, England

Field	Value
official_name	Duxford
static_image_name	Ford across the Thames - geograph.org.uk - 1461303.jpg
static_image_caption	The ford at Duxford
os_grid_reference	SU364996
coordinates
label_position	bottom
civil_parish	Hinton Waldrist
shire_district	Vale of White Horse
shire_county	Oxfordshire
region	South East England
country	England
post_town	Faringdon
postcode_district	SN7
postcode_area	SN
dial_code	01865
constituency_westminster	Wantage

Duxford is a hamlet in the civil parish of Hinton Waldrist, 5.5 mi northeast of Faringdon. It was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire. It is on the south bank of the Thames, across which is its eponymous ford leading to a lock island which has a footbridge to Chimney on the north bank. This is the only ford today along the river, excluding along its intermittent brook at the source village, Kemble, Gloucestershire however the ford only crosses part of the river.

History

Duxford's toponym has evolved from Dudochesforde in the Domesday Book of 1086 via Dukesford in the 13th century, and Duddelesford and Dodekelesford in the 14th century before reaching its present form. The manor of Duxford had three taxable hides. A Saxon called Alwi held it during the reign of Edward the Confessor, but by the time of the Domesday Book it had been granted to William of Normandy's half-brother Odo, Bishop of Bayeux. The Domesday Book recorded a fishery and a watermill at Duxford. The watermill was still in existence in 1219. Until the 20th century there was a ferry across the Thames here. In 1898 the Shifford Lock Cut was opened, controlling the flow of the river past Duxford.

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