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Burford

Footnote: 

Content generated during research for the paperback book 'Burford: Buildings and People in a Cotswold Town' (ISBN 13 : 9781860774881) for the England's Past for Everyone series

From the Middle Ages to its closure c.1800 this was one of Burford's most important inns, located close to the Tolsey and opposite Witney Street.

These two small adjoining cottages, though of different date, were both altered in the 19th century, and their low ground-floor ceilings remain vis

This smart façade hides an earlier house, owned in 1685 by Richard Bartholomew.

This intriguing building has an alleged but unproven connection with the clothier Edmund Silvester (died 1569) - see Falkland Hall and Edmund Silve

In origin this is another jettied, timber-framed building with fine carved bargeboards of the late 15th century, built for an unknown owner and inc

This small cottage with its rubblestone front is of 17th-century origin, but has been increased in height.

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Dominating what is now a narrow side street of small cottages, The Great House is one of three large gentry houses in Burford, and one of the few B

This smart 17th-century façade of neatly squared limestone blocks, with characteristic drip-moulds over the first-floor windows, probably unites tw

The three rubblestone cottages numbered 20, 22 and 24 are probably all of 17th-century origin, and may have once formed a single property: the fron

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