Farnborough, Warwickshire
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Farnborough is a village and
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in the
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district of
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,
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. It is located on the border with
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, around 6 miles (10 km) north of
Banbury Banbury is an historic market town and civil parish on the River Cherwell in Oxfordshire, South East England. The parish had a population of 54,335 at the 2021 Census. Banbury is a significant commercial and retail centre for the surrounding ...
. The population taken at the 2011 census was 265. The village has a church,
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s, a
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and an eating house, ''The Kitchen''. On the southern edge of the village is
Farnborough Hall Farnborough Hall is a country house in Warwickshire, England near to the town of Banbury, (). It has been owned by the National Trust since 1960 when Geoffrey Holbech endowed the house and estate, and is still administered by the Holbech family; ...
, a
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Listed building built by the Holbech family in the early 17th century and endowed to the
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in the 1960s.


References

*''Warwickshire Towns & Villages'', by Geoff Allen (2000)


External links


Farnborough Village website
{{authority control Villages in Warwickshire