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Burford is a tiny medieval town on the River Windrush, in the Cotswold hillsides, in the West Oxfordshire district of Oxfordshire, England. It is frequently described as the ‘entrance’ to the Cotswolds. Burford lies 18 miles (29 km) west of Oxford and also 22 miles (35 km) southeast of Cheltenham, concerning 2 miles (3 kilometres) from the Gloucestershire limit. The toponym stems from the Old English words burh indicating fortified community or hilltown and also ford, the going across of a river. The 2011 Census recorded the population of Burford parish as 1,410 and also Burford Ward as 1,847. The town centre’s most remarkable building is the Church of St John the Baptist, a Church of England parish church, which is a Quality I listed building. Defined by David Verey as “a complex structure which has actually created in an interested way from the Norman”, it is known for its vendors’ guild church, memorial to Henry VIII’s barber-surgeon, Edmund Harman, including South American Indians and Kempe tarnished glass. In 1649 the church was used as a prison throughout the Civil War, when the New Model Army Banbury mutineers were held there. A few of the 340 detainees left makings and graffiti, which still make it through in the church. The town centre also has some 15th-century houses and the baroque design townhouse that is currently Burford Methodist Church. In between the 14th and 17th centuries Burford was necessary for its woollen profession. The Tolsey, midway along Burford’s High Street, which was when the centerpiece for trade, is now a museum.