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| | Banbury,Normandy,Hastings and the Domesday Book. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) |
 | | eanwhile, in the county of Oxford, just as they were all over England, Norman land holders present at the Battle of Hastings were shuffled as tenants-in-chief and fell in or out of favour with the monarch, or succumbed to other harsh, but sometimes beneficial circumstances. |
 | | It may be said that the traffic between these multiple Mill villages and local outlying, manors, ploughlands and estates in Oxfordshire was the highest, although market towns such as Banbury (Horse Fair) and Woodstock (Forest) also attracted much traffic on market days and this tradition is still continued to this day. |
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