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Vale of White Horse / Royaume-Uni

Vale of White Horse est l'un des cinq districts de l’Oxfordshire, en Angleterre. Il est créé le 1er avril 1974. Le Vale of White Horse correspond à la vallée de l'Ock, une petite rivière qui se jette dans la Tamise. Il comporte 68 paroisses civiles, la plus peuplée étant celle d'Abingdon dans l'est du district, au confluent de l'Ock et de la Tamise. Son nom est dû au Cheval blanc d'Uffington. De plus, se trouve sur le territoire une piste herbeuse revendiquée comme étant la plus vieille "route" d'Europe, la The Ridgeway , datant de 5000 ans ou plus. Villes principales: Abingdon Faringdon Wantage

Defence Academy of the United Kingdom

Vale of White Horse / Royaume-Uni

The Defence Academy of the United Kingdom provides higher education for personnel in the British Armed Forces, Civil Service, other government departments and service personnel from other nations. The Director General of the Defence Academy is Air Marshal Edward Stringer, a senior Royal Air Force officer.

Christ's Hospital of Abingdon

Vale of White Horse / Royaume-Uni

Christ's Hospital of Abingdon is a charity with a long history, based in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, , England.

Buscot Park

Vale of White Horse / Royaume-Uni

Buscot Park is a country house at Buscot near the town of Faringdon in Oxfordshire within the historic boundaries of Berkshire. It was built in an austere neoclassical style between 1780 and 1783 for Edward Loveden Loveden. It remained in the family until sold in 1859 to Robert Tertius Campbell, an Australian. Campbell's daughter Florence would later be famous as Mrs Charles Bravo, the central character in a Victorian murder case that remains unsolved to this day. On Campbell's death, in 1887, the house and its estate were sold to Alexander Henderson a financier, later to be ennobled as Baron Faringdon. Following the death of the 1st Baron in 1934, the house was considerably altered and restored to its 18th-century form, by the architect Geddes Hyslop, for his grandson and successor, Gavin Henderson, 2nd Baron Faringdon, during this era, the art collection founded by the 1st Baron was considerably enlarged, although many of the 1st Baron's 19th-century works of art were sold immediately following his death. The house and estate was bequeathed to the National Trust in 1956. The contents are owned by the Faringdon Collection Trust. The house is occupied and managed by the present Lord Faringdon. The mansion and its extensive formal and informal gardens and grounds are open to the public each summer.