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Culham Rural District

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Culham rd
Culham rd

Culham was a rural district in Oxfordshire, England, from 1894 to 1932. It was formed under the Local Government Act 1894 from the part of the Abingdon Rural Sanitary District in the administrative county of Oxfordshire. The remainder of the sanitary district, in the administrative county of Berkshire, became Abingdon Rural District. The rural district council continued to be based at Abingdon, holding meetings in the workhouse of the poor law union.

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Culham Rural District
B4015, South Oxfordshire

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N 51.675 ° E -1.19 °
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OX44 7XD South Oxfordshire
England, United Kingdom
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Harcourt Arboretum
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