Burford (pronounced /ˈbɝːfɚd/) is a town on the River Windrush in the Cotswold hills in Oxfordshire, England, about 16 miles (26 km) west of Oxford. The name derives from the Old English words burh meaning fortified town or hilltown and ford meaning ford (crossing).
Burford Priory is an country house that stands on the site of a 13th century Augustinian hospital. In the 1580s an Elizabethan house was built incorporating remnants of the priory hos...
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Burford (pronounced /ˈbɝːfɚd/) is a town on the River Windrush in the Cotswold hills in Oxfordshire, England, about 16 miles (26 km) west of Oxford. The name derives from the Old English words burh meaning fortified town or hilltown and ford meaning ford (crossing).
Burford Priory is an country house that stands on the site of a 13th century Augustinian hospital. In the 1580s an Elizabethan house was built incorporating remnants of the priory hospital. In the 17th century it was remodelled in Jacobean style, probably after 1637 when the estate had been bought by William Lenthall, Speaker of the House of Commons in the Long Parliament. The house and later the chapel were restored for the philanthropist E.J. Horniman, M.P., after 1912 by the architect Walter Godfrey.
From 1949, Burford Priory housed The Society of the Salutation of Our Lady, a community of Church of England nuns. In the 1980s, its numbers dwindled so in 1987 it became a mixed community including Church of England...
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