Duxford, Oxfordshire

Duxford is a hamlet in the civil parish of Hinton Waldrist 5.5 miles (9 km) northeast of Faringdon.

[1] A Saxon called Alwi held it during the reign of Edward the Confessor, but by the time of the Domesday Book it had been granted to William of Normandy's half-brother Odo, Bishop of Bayeux.

[1] The Domesday Book recorded a fishery and a watermill at Duxford.

In 1898 the Shifford Lock Cut was opened, controlling the flow of the river past Duxford.

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