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A map of Ontario highlighting Oxford County: Date: 16 October 2007: Source: Crop and trace of Image:Canada (geolocalisation).svg; trace of Image:Ontario subdivisions.PNG.
Brant Oxford Road, Trussler Road 37 Tillsonburg East/West Potter's Rd. 40 Curries East/West 41 Sweaburg North/South short connector to CR 40 42 Plattsville East/West 43 east of Washington North/South spur from CR 8 to Perth County 44 East/West short section from CR 43, along Perth County border 45 south of Thamesford North/South 46
English place names in Canada is a list of Canadian place names which are named after places in England, carried over by English emigrants and explorers from the United Kingdom and Ireland. The names can also be derived from places founded by people with English surnames.
Oxford County is a regional municipality in the Canadian province of Ontario.Highway 401 runs east–west through the centre of the county, creating an urban industrial corridor with more than half the county's population, spanning 25 km between the Toyota auto assembly plant in Woodstock and the CAMI General Motors auto assembly plant in Ingersoll.
The earliest use of the term cited in the Oxford English Dictionary is from 1695. Charles Davenant , in An Essay upon Ways and Means of Supplying the War , wrote, "The Eleven Home Counties, which are thought in Land Taxes to pay more than their proportion, viz. Surry [ sic ] with Southwark , Hertfordshire , Bedfordshire , Cambridgeshire , Kent ...
Blandford-Blenheim is a township in the Canadian province of Ontario, located in Oxford County.The township had a population of 7,359 in the Canada 2011 Census.. Its government consists of a mayor and four councillors.
English: Small map of central Oxford, England. Original raster version was created from OpenStreetMap project data, collected by the community. Created by Willtron
The history of Oxford in England dates back to its original settlement in the Saxon period.Originally of strategic significance due to its controlling location on the upper reaches of the River Thames at its confluence with the River Cherwell, the town grew in national importance during the early Norman period, and in the late 12th century became home to the fledgling University of Oxford. [8]