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Oxfordshire was increased in size in 1974 when the northern part of Berkshire, embracing the towns of Faringdon, Abingdon, Didcot and Wantage, and the Vale of the White Horse, was added to the county. Geologically Oxfordshire offers a varied picture, with clay and greensand in the central Vale of Oxford and Cotswold limestone towards the west, while in the east and south-west are the chalk slopes of the Chilterns and the chalk downs around Uffington and Whitehorse Hill. To the north, in the Banbury area, the distinctive colour of many of the buildings denotes the presence of ironstone deposits.
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Bax, A., Fairfield, S. (1978). Oxfordshire. In: The Macmillan Guide to the United Kingdom 1978–79. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-81511-1_33
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