Banburyshire

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Banburyshire is an informal area of England that is centred on the market town of Banbury. The county of Oxfordshire has two main commercial centres, the city of Oxford itself that serves most of the south of the county, and Banbury that serves the north plus significant parts of the neighbouring counties of Northamptonshire and Warwickshire.

From the former, the villages of King's Sutton and Middleton Cheney, and possibly also Aynho, Charlton and Croughton could be considered part of Banburyshire, and from the latter Kineton, Upper and Lower Brailes also fall within Banbury's sphere of influence.

One map of Banburyshire shows it extending as far afield as Towcester.

Since 2003 the name Banburyshire has been used to describe web-browser technology on CDROM, which crosses the boundary between the offline (physical) and online (internet) worlds, in much the same way as Banburyshire had previously been used to cross the political boundaries. This has allowed the creation of a Banburyshire world, which people can identify with, which maps onto the real world, but isn't restricted by geographic boundaries.