What is Banbury?
[[Image:Banbury - Oxfordshire dot.png|thumb|200px|right|Map showing where Banbury is.]] '''Banbury''' is a [[market town]] on the River Cherwell in northern [[Oxfordshire]], [[England]]. <ref>{{Cite web|title=The history of Banbury, Oxfordshire|url=https://www.information-britain.co.uk/history/town/Banbury11/|access-date=2020-08-20|website=www.information-britain.co.uk|archive-date=2017-07-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170709071628/http://information-britain.co.uk/history/town/Banbury11/|url-status=dead}}</ref> It had a population of 43,867 at the 2001 [[census]]. Although this figure has increased greatly in recent years.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ons.gov.uk/|title=Home - Office for National Statistics|website=www.ons.gov.uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Banbury Community profile of Health and Wellbeing evidence|url=https://insight.oxfordshire.gov.uk/cms/system/files/documents/BanburyJSNAprofileNov19.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210509110350/https://insight.oxfordshire.gov.uk/cms/system/files/documents/BanburyJSNAprofileNov19.pdf|archive-date=9 May 2021|access-date=20 August 2020|website=Oxfordshire City Council|url-status=dead}}</ref> Banbury is part of the Cherwell district. The [[Member of Parliament]] for Banbury is Victoria Prentis. Banbury played an important part in the [[English Civil War]] prior to the [[Battle of Edge Hill]], as shown by [[The Reindeer inn]] (December 2005). Heavy [[clay]] and [[Ironstone]] deposits surround Banbury. The [[Oxfordshire Ironstone Railway]] (the O.I.R.) was the local railway line from Banbury to the nearby [[ironstone]] [[quarry]] at [[Wroxton]]. It was open from [[1917]] to [[1967]]. ==Gallery== <gallery> Image:Banbury 1.jpg|The [[Castle Quay Shopping]], alongside the [[Oxford Canal]] and [[Banbury Museum]] in the background. Image:Banbury from the air.jpg|The land around Banbury as seen from above, looking north-west. Image:Banbury town hall 1.jpg|[[Banbury Town Hall]] at night. File:Banbury market Mk1 8.png|