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The special fruit and pastry cake for which Banbury is famous is still produced. At one time they were being sent as far afield as Australia, India and America.

Banbury remains a pleasant town in spite of being an industrial, marketing and shopping centre. The town dates back to the Saxons, although the original Banbury cross was destroyed in an upsurge of Puritanism three centuries ago. The present cross dates from only 1859.

A nursery rhyme, 'Ride a Cock Horse' has made Banbury one of the best-known towns in England. The ‘fine lady’ of the rhyme is believed to have been a member of the Fiennes family, who still live at nearby Broughton castle.

‘Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross
To see a fine lady upon a white horse
Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes
She shall have music where-ever she goes’

Today Banbury is an expanding market and industrial town experiencing growth as a direct benefit of its proximity to the completed M40 motorway linking London to Birmingham via Oxford.

Places to visit, Banbury museum, opposite the Banbury Cross, Broughton Castle, a moated 14th century manor house with Elizabethan additions.

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