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Longworth is a village and civil parish about west of Abingdon-on-Thames and a similar distance east of Faringdon and south of Witney. It is located in the historic county of Berkshire, however, since 1974 for administration purposes the village is located in the Vale of White Horse district of Oxfordshire. The hamlet of Newbridge is located within the parish of Longworth. There is a non-denominational primary school in the village. Longworth parish stretches between the River Thames in the north and the A420 road in the south. Harrowdown Hill, in the north of the parish near the Thames, is where biological warfare expert David Kelly died (or committed suicide) during the Second Gulf War WMD scandal; this gave rise to a public enquiry concluded by the Hutton Report, and to the title of a popular song, 'Harrowdown Hill' by Thom Yorke, which expressed doubts about the British government's handling of the issue. Sir Henry Marten, a 17th-century judge of the Admiralty Court, and his son, Henry Marten, the regicide, lived at Longworth House. The Old Rectory at Longworth was the birthplace on 7 June 1825 of the novelist R. D. Blackmore, author of ''Lorna Doone'', whose father was briefly curate-in-charge of the parish.〔Christopher Winn: ''I Never Knew That about the River Thames'' (London: Ebury Press, 2010), p. 45.〕 ==Geography and transport== Longworth is south-west of Oxford and south-east of the old market town of Bampton. It is just south of the River Thames crossing at Newbridge. Longworth has two bus services. RH Transport services route 63 links Longworth with Oxford from Monday to Saturday via the villages of Southmoor, Hinton Waldrist, Appleton, Eaton and Cumnor. Grayline〔(Grayline: Ancillary Services ) 〕 route 43 links Eaton with Abingdon-on-Thames via Longworth on Mondays and Thursdays. 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「Longworth」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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