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Shrivenham
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Shrivenham is a village and civil parish in the Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England, about south-west of Faringdon. The village is close to the county boundary with Wiltshire and about east-northeast of the centre of Swindon. The 2011 Census recorded the parish population as 2,347. The parish is within the historic boundaries of Berkshire; the 1974 boundary changes transferred the Vale of White Horse to Oxfordshire for administrative purposes.
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Place details
- Locality
- Swindon
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 4,676
- Timezone
- Europe/London
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Key facts
- UK place.official_name
- Shrivenham
- UK place.static_image_name
- Shrivenham StAndrew southwest.JPG
- UK place.static_image_caption
- St Andrew's parish church
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SU2388
- UK place.population
- 3061
- UK place.population_ref
- (2021)
- 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
- Swindon
- UK place.postcode_district
- SN6
- UK place.postcode_area
- SN
- UK place.dial_code
- 01793
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Witney
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Official website
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Shrivenham is a village and civil parish in the Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England, about south-west of Faringdon. The village is close to the county boundary with Wiltshire and about east-northeast of the centre of Swindon. The 2011 Census recorded the parish population as 2,347. The parish is within the historic boundaries of Berkshire; the 1974 boundary changes transferred the Vale of White Horse to Oxfordshire for administrative purposes.
==History== There has been human settlement at Shrivenham from at least 400 BC. The remains of a Roman villa have been uncovered nearby. Shrivenham was part of Shrivenham Hundred which included Ashbury, Buscot, Coleshill, Compton Beauchamp, Eaton Hastings, Longcot, Shrivenham, and Uffington.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Shrivenham” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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