English, E: Oxford Illustrated (Classic Reprint)

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HE name of Oxford is accepted as pr of its very great antiquity it. Being the Celtic form Of Ousen-ford, the ford across the water, as in Ousen-ey, or Oseney, intimating the existence of an Island. The later name of Oxna-ford (though an early one), like the Ox-ford of today, is a departure from its original intention, though not by any means inappropriate, and is in agreement with the Arms of the City, in which appears the ox crossing the ford. For two centuries, between 626 and 827, Oxfordshire had been a frontier country between the West Saxons and the Mercians, and Oxford, itself a ville on the border of the Thames, the natural boundary-line between the two great kingdoms, had been the constant'scene of struggle, and had belonged alternately to Mercia and Wessex. In the year 827 Egbert of Wessex, having brought Mercia under his sway, consolidated his power, and Oxford being no longer a frontier town had peace and made rapid progress.

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