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I am not sure that I would describe Witney as being "near" to Bicester. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.128.4.177 (talk) 21:50, 13 April 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Also the Kraft food factory is in Banbury not Bicester! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.153.253.222 (talk) 18:33, 19 September 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Mervyn, the old page is outdated. If is something that you want to keep from that version please feel free to add it to the new one. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BicesterRAF (talk • contribs) 09:34, 8 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Miss Dannatt

From the fine article Miss G. H. Dannatt found 45 variants in wills of the 17th and 18th centuries. I'm curious now, who is Miss Dannatt? GyroMagician (talk) 08:58, 23 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Miss Dannatt was a local school teacher who undertook post graduate research at Oxford University on Bicester wills of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries . It was published in 'Oxoniensia' vols XXVI/XXVII (1961/2). RP. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.76.79.100 (talk) 20:51, 25 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Miss D sounds like an excellent source, but the way the article currently reads, it sounds as if she is important, rather than the work she did. Wouldn't she be better placed as a reference? GyroMagician (talk) 21:02, 25 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Miss Dannatt was the Deputy Head of Bicester Grammer School and taught History. She was a lovely lady and her nickname, at least in the 60s, was 'Fan Dan' . —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.254.146.20 (talk) 12:17, 16 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Community section - proposed deletion of sentence

The fact the town celebrated the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in 2012 is surely unremarkable when countless towns in Britain and the Commonwealth had their own celebrations. Unless there was something distinctive from other celebrations I propose nominating the sentence for deletion.Cloptonson (talk) 20:12, 14 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Introduction

Could anybody correct the below sentence, as I am not sure I fully understand the meaning. It looks like the sentence has been edited from a different iteration.

It has its own town council, approximately a one quarter of the population hence ward contribution to the District Council and further representation as to different local governmental matters on the County Council.

Frogfisher (talk) 13:15, 17 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

IPA vs audio

The pronunciation of 'Bicester' is shown in phonetic alphabet characters as /bɪstər/, but the audio file says /bɪstə/ - the standard RP pronunciation in which the final 'r' is silent. If no one objects, I'll change the IPA to match the audio. In the near future. Cwrwgar (talk) 07:25, 17 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies, I wasn't aware of MOS:RHOTIC or Help:IPA/English. If them's the rules...Cwrwgar (talk) 09:29, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Etymology

Nonsense. Bi-cester isn't Latin; in any case it would be Bicastrum, meaning "double camp". The old variations seem to convey the meaning "burn castrum". Manfariel (talk) 01:57, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Manfariel: Not necessarily, see Chester (placename element). --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 08:22, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Corrections: Bicastra (not Bicastrum); "burnt castra". Manfariel (talk) 13:53, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nevertheless, -cester has the same derivation as -chester, and -caster: they are commonly indications that the place is the site of a Roman castrum. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:48, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I know, I never said else, but that the article reads that Bi-cester is Latin, and it isn't, as the Latin ending is -castra and not -cester. Manfariel (talk) 22:55, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]