Banbury

Meanings

Proper Noun

  • market town/and/civil parish with a town council, on the River river, Cherwell in Cherwell (district) Oxfordshire (county) England (constituent country) .

Noun

Origin

  • From Old English Banna ("name of a 6th-century Saxon chieftain said to have build") or Bana, Banna + [[burgh (from Proto-Germanic *burgz ("city, stronghold"), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- ("high")).

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