Burford is a small town on the River Windrush in the Cotswold hills
in west Oxfordshire, England, about 18 miles (29 km) west of Oxford, 22
miles (35 km) southeast of Cheltenham and only about 2 miles (3 km)
from the Gloucestershire boundary. The toponym derives from the Old English
words burh meaning fortified
town or hilltown and ford, the
crossing of a river
