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Faringdon is a market town in the Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England, about southwest of Oxford and about northwest of Wantage. It is a large parish, its lowest parts extending to the River Thames in the north and its highest ground reaching the Ridgeway in the south. It was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire. The civil parish is formally called Great Faringdon, to distinguish it from Little Faringdon in West Oxfordshire. The 2011 Census recorded its population as 7,121. On 1 February 2004, Faringdon was granted Fairtrade Town status, becoming the first Fairtrade Town in South East England. Faringdon is the base for the Faringdon Enterprise Gateway, which is run by the South East England Development Agency to help and advise businesses in rural west Oxfordshire. ==History== The toponym "Faringdon" means "fern covered hill". Claims〔...for example in Goodrich (1928)〕 that King Edward the Elder died there are incorrect.〔The relevant reference to ''Fearndune'' in the ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'' is now thought instead to refer to Farndon in Cheshire.〕 The town was granted a weekly market in 1218, and as a result came to be called Chipping Faringdon.〔Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; National Archives; CP 40/647; (online here ); John Terry of Chepyng Farendon, Berks, the defendant; first entry〕 The weekly market is still held today. King John also established an abbey in Faringdon in 1202, (probably on the site of Portwell House) but it soon moved to Beaulieu in Hampshire.〔Page & Ditchfield, 1924, pages 489–499〕 In 1417 the aged Archbishop of Dublin, Thomas Cranley, died in Faringdon while journeying to London. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Faringdon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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