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Museum
The Tolsey Museum
Market house of around 1525, now a local-history museum on the first floor, reached only by stairs.
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Burford: things to do
Places worth your time in Burford
Top places
Things to do in Burford
Landmarks, museums, parks and viewpoints in and around the area.
Historic building
The Great Almshouses
Grade II* listed almshouses of the mid-15th century, founded in 1457 and restored in 1828.
Historic building
Burford Methodist Church
Baroque town house of about 1715 to 1730 built for a lawyer, converted to a Methodist chapel in 1849; Grade II* listed.
Church
St James the Great, Fulbrook
Parish church in neighbouring Fulbrook with Norman origins, a 15th-century tower and a Baroque monument to the Thorpe brothers.
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Memorial
Burford War Memorial
Town war memorial on The Hill, at the foot of the High Street.
Church
St John the Baptist's Church
Grade I listed church with Kempe stained glass and a merchants' guild chapel; Levellers held here in 1649 left carvings.
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Memorial
Levellers plaque
Plaque recalling three Leveller soldiers executed in the churchyard on 17 May 1649; the town marks Levellers Day each year.
Historic building
Burford Priory
House on the site of a 13th-century Augustinian priory hospital, restored after 1912 and a private dwelling since 2008.
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Broadway
A wide High Street of stone houses below Broadway Tower
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- Burford (area photo): bongo vongo, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- The Tolsey Museum: Alex McGregor, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- The Great Almshouses: wfmillar, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Burford Methodist Church: Jaggery, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- St James the Great, Fulbrook: Bill Boaden, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Burford War Memorial: Jaggery, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- St John the Baptist's Church: Dave Hitchborne, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Levellers plaque: Kaihsu Tai, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Burford Priory: Eirian Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Cirencester: Tony Grist, Public domain, source
- Chipping Campden: nick macneill, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Broadway: Jeff Gogarty, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Stow-on-the-Wold: Bill Boaden, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Bourton-on-the-Water: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
Photos from Wikimedia Commons, used under the licences shown. All photo credits
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