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One of the earliest Dissenting groups in Burford were the Friends or Quakers.

Roman Catholics, who were earlier recorded in Burford in only very small numbers, became established in the 1930s, when a small congregation met in

This late medieval stone and (probably) timber-framed house has been much altered, but its medieval plan can still be discerned.

A vicarage house stood on part of this site from the Middle Ages, and a surviving medieval range at the rear may be part of it.

A substantial house occupied this large site by 1665, when it had at least 10 fireplaces.

Image copyright English Heritage

Burford parish church, its elegant 15th-century spire visible for miles around, is the town’s earliest and largest communal building. In both size

This view towards the east from Church Street shows the Victorian church of St Mary's, designed by E. W. Stephens of Maidstone and built by J. G.

Aylesford, St Peter and St Paul's Church.

This photograph dates from after 1918, when the German field gun was placed outide the lych gate as a memorial to Sergeant Thomas Harris, VC, who w

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