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Gallowstree Common is a
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in
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,
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, about north of
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. The village had a
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, the Reformation, which was controlled by the
Brakspear W.H. Brakspear & Sons Ltd. is a brewer in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. Since the closure of its original brewery in Henley-on-Thames in 2002, most of its beers have been brewed by Wychwood Brewery in West Oxfordshire. In 1993, beer writer Mic ...
brewery. The brewery sold the pub garden for housing and the pub is to be turned into a vet's surgery. The village has two woods: New Copse to the north and Withy Copse to the west.


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