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Bix and Assendon
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Bix and Assendon
Location within Oxfordshire
Population531 (2011 census)
Civil parish
  • Bix and Assendon
District
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Region
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Sovereign state United Kingdom
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England
Oxfordshire
51°34′N0°56′W / 51.56°N 0.94°W / 51.56; -0.94

Bix and Assendon, formerly just Bix is a mainly rural civil parish in the high Chilterns just north of Henley-on-Thames in South Oxfordshire, in the county of Oxfordshire, England. The parish includes the villages of Bix, Lower Assendon and Middle Assendon. The 2011 census recorded a parish population of 531 mainly clustered in the settlements mentioned in its total area of 9.79 km2. [1]

On 22 July 1986 the parish was rename from "Bix" to "Bix & Assendon". [2]

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References

  1. "Area selected: South Oxfordshire (Non-Metropolitan District)". Neighbourhood Statistics: Full Dataset View. Office for National Statistics . Retrieved 20 April 2011.
  2. "Henley Registration District". UKBMD. Retrieved 18 August 2023.

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