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Thame

Market town in Oxfordshire, England, 21 km/13 mi west of Oxford; population (2001) 11,100. It is situated on the River Thame, which has its source in the Chiltern Hills and flows past Thame to the River Thames, which it joins near Dorchester; it is 56 km/35 mi long.

Thame has a large Gothic (Early English and Perpendicular) church of St Mary the Virgin which contains a 14th-century screen. A grammar school was founded here in the 16th century and also an inn, the Spread Eagle.



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