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Gordon Elliot
19 hours ago1 min read
VE Day Celebrations
Following on from the enormous success of D-Day 80 - 6th June 2024, when the 80th Anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy, France,...


Gordon Elliot
Feb 101 min read
Work to start soon on A40 new slip roads
Work will begin soon on new slip roads at the Shores Green junction on the A40 to the east of Witney. At the moment traffic from the east...


Gordon Elliot
Feb 81 min read
Bourton coach parking argument solved
The controversy over coach parking in Bourton-on- the Water may be reaching a conclusion. This started when the owner of the car park in...


Gordon Elliot
Jan 292 min read
Oxford-Cambridge arc revived
A few years ago there was much discussion about the so-called Oxford-Cambridge Arc, a plan for new homes and businesses. The idea of the...


Gordon Elliot
Jan 232 min read
Calling all history buffs
The Burford Festival is hosting a special event at 7pm on 4 February when there will be an opportunity to hear two distinguished...


Gordon Elliot
Jan 231 min read
Nick Mills
From The Times of 23 January death announcements: MILLS Nicholas Greenaway on 12th January 2025 at Lower Upton, Burford. Memorial...


Gordon Elliot
Jan 231 min read
Thames Water in dispute with regulator over prices
It is reported that Thames Water has been unable to reach agreement with the water regulator, Ofwat, over how much our water bills can go...


Gordon Elliot
Jan 200 min read

Gordon Elliot
Jan 152 min read
Why we should support our farmers
Nicholas Field-Johnson, County councillor for Burford and Carterton North, writes as follows: Farms are handed down generation to...


Gordon Elliot
Jan 121 min read
If winter comes, can spring be far behind?*
These are the first of this season's daffodils that we have spotted - this morning during a walk around Burford. *Percy Bysshe Shelley,...


Gordon Elliot
Jan 82 min read
Christmas Shop Window Competition
The ad hoc choir sings before the switch-on As Christmas recedes in our memories, here is a reminder of the Christmas lights switch-on...

Gordon Elliot
Jan 13 min read
Cotswold Christmas Quiz results
Well done to all readers who came up with the answers, or most of the answers, to our quiz. Â The first person to email us with all the...


Gordon Elliot
Dec 31, 20240 min read

Gordon Elliot
Dec 24, 20242 min read
There's still time to enter our fiendish Cotswold Christmas Quiz
Entries close at 2359 on 31 December. Please send your answers to editor@thebridgeburford.co.uk The Bridge Cotswold Quiz Our thanks to...

Gordon Elliot
Dec 20, 20241 min read
Christmas services in the Burford benefice
Photo credit: Pete Gould Sunday 22 December Carol service - Swinbrook church 11.00am Carols by candlelight - Burford church 4.30pm and...


Gordon Elliot
Dec 19, 20241 min read
...and while on the theme of Christmas
We associate Christmas with reindeer, the ox and the ass, a turkey... and in Burford with a dachshund, cleverly shown in lights on The...

Gordon Elliot
Dec 19, 20241 min read
A Christmas journey through Burford
Watch this video for a journey down The Hill and the High Street in Burford with the excellent new Christmas lights....


Gordon Elliot
Dec 13, 20242 min read
Restrictions on coaches in Priory Lane
You may know that Burford Town Council is trying to restrict parking for coaches in Priory Lane to vehicles of not more than 12 metres in...


Gordon Elliot
Nov 22, 20243 min read
West Oxfordshire local plan latest
This may sound boring but it is important as the local plan will have a strong influence on where development will take place (or not...

Gordon Elliot
Nov 15, 20241 min read
Street Lights will not be Switched off
We must confess that the plan to turn off Burford's street lights had completely passed us by. However, if you were worrying about this,...
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