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Banbury is a market town on the River Cherwell in Oxfordshire, England, northwest of London, southeast of Birmingham, south of Coventry and north-by-northwest of the county town of Oxford. It had a population of 46,853 at the 2011 census.
Banbury is a significant commercial and retail centre for the surrounding area, which is predominantly rural. Banbury's main industries are car components, electrical goods, plastics, food processing, and printing. Banbury is home to the world's largest coffee-processing facility ( Jacobs Douwe Egberts), built in 1964. The town is famed for Banbury cakes – similar to Eccles cakes but oval in shape.
Banbury is an Oxfordshire constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom since 2015 by Victoria Prentis of the Conservative Party. The constituency is commonly, but erroneously, referred to as the North Oxfordshire constituency.
In terms of electorate, Banbury was the 13th largest constituency in the United Kingdom and the largest in Oxfordshire at the time of the 2010 general election.
Banbury is a market town located on the River Cherwell in northern Oxfordshire, England.
Banbury may also refer to:
Banbury is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Coach Banbury (20th century), American football coach
- Fred Everest Banbury (1893–1918), Canadian flying ace during World War I
- Frederick Banbury, 1st Baron Banbury of Southam (1850–1936), British businessman
- Frith Banbury (1912–2008), British actor
- Jen Banbury (21st century), American playwright
- Quince Banbury (1883–1956), American football player and coach
Usage examples of "banbury".
Project Gutenberg EBook of Banbury Chap Books, by Edwin Pearson This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.
INCLUDING Jack the Giant Killer, Cock Robin, Tom Thumb, Whittington, Goody Two Shoes, Philip Quarll, Tommy Trip, York and Banbury Cries, Children in the Wood, Dame Trot, Horn Books, Battledores, Primers, etc.
Literary, Artistic, Historical, Topographical, Typographical, and Antiquarian Reminiscences connected with the early Printing and Engraving of Banbury involved that of many other important towns and counties of Great Britain, and also America.
The quaint old cuts on next page probably illustrated an early Newcastle, then York, and finally Banbury, edition of this oft published work.
Chap Men, or Running, Flying, and other mercurial stationers, peripatetic booksellers, pedlers, packmen, and again chepmen, these visited the villages and small towns from the large printers of the supply towns, as London, Banbury, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow, etc.
Many of our readers have heard of Banbury Cross and Banbury cakes, and other famous juvenile associations, as the lady with bells on her toes, but it was also connected with the production of books for juvenile readers.
My dame had butter, eggs and fruit, And I had corn and hay, Joe drove the ox and Tom the swine, Dick took the foal and mare: I sold them all--then home to dine From famous Banbury Fair.
Good things to engross, Near Banbury cross Where Tommy shall go on the nag, He makes no mistake, Buy a Banbury Cake, Books, Pictures, and Banbury Shag.
Rusher in his Banbury Horn Books, Battledores, Galloping Guide to A, B, C, Primers, Reading Made Easy, Spelling Books, etc.
These York Cries have not been mentioned by any writer on juvenile literature and the same may be said of the Banbury Cries.
To Banbury came I, Prophane one, Where I saw a Puritan Hanging of his cat on Monday For killing of a mouse on Sunday.
In conclusion, it may be said that the present volume contains many precious relics of the Bewick, Newbury, Goldsmith, Newcastle York, Banbury, Coventry, and Catnach presses, and a representative collection of the stock of workable woodcuts of a provincial printer in the latter part of the 18th century, and to those who would like to inspect the rentable copies of those valuable and interesting little books, and some of the original Horn Books, etc.
Cuts by Sears after Williams, used on Cheap Repository Tracts, and on Local Banbury Ephemeral Literature.
The Project Gutenberg EBook of Banbury Chap Books, by Edwin Pearson This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.
Sears after Williams, used on Cheap Repository Tracts, and on Local Banbury Ephemeral Literature.