Banbury

English

Etymology

From Old English Banna (“name of a 6th-century Saxon chieftain said to have built a stockade in that place”) or bana, banna (“a byname meaning ‘felon, murderer’”) + burgh (“borough; settlement; town”) (from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“city, stronghold”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“high”)).

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Banbury

  1. A market town and civil parish with a town council, on the River Cherwell in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP4540).

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Banbury (countable and uncountable, plural Banburies)

  1. A Banbury cake.
  2. (historical) A yellow, strongly-flavoured cheese.
  3. (historical) A type of codebreaking sheet printed in Banbury and used by Bletchley Park to decipher the Enigma cipher during World War II.

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