Newton Purcell with Shelswell is a

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Newton Purcell Newton Purcell is a village in the civil parish of Newton Purcell with Shelswell, in the Cherwell district, in the county of Oxfordshire, England, southeast of Brackley in neighbouring Northamptonshire. The 2001 Census recorded a parish popu ...

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Shelswell Shelswell is a Hamlet (place), hamlet in the civil parish of Newton Purcell with Shelswell, in the Cherwell (district), Cherwell district, in the county of Oxfordshire, England. It is about south of Brackley in neighbouring Northamptonshire. ...

Lobel, 1959, pages 285-289 ().

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