Vortigern makes use of Hengist and Horsa, brothers and legendary leaders of the first Anglo-Saxon settlers in Britain who emigrate, according to the English historian and theologian Bede, to fight for the British king against the Picts.

The brothers are said to have been Jutes and sons of one Wihtgils.

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle says that they landed at Ebbsfleet, Kent.

Campion is arrested by a spy at Lyford, Berkshire, on July 17, 1581, and taken to the Tower of London.

The County Hall of Berkshire, built from 1678 to 1682 in Abingdon, has most likely been designed by the Oxfordshire-born stonemason Christopher Kempster, who had trained with Sir Christopher Wren on St. Paul's Cathedral.

It stands on pillars with a sheltered area beneath for use as a market or other municipal functions.

Situated adjacent to the main market square, the building is today the Abingdon County Hall Museum.

Radley College, an English public school, is founded near Radley, Oxfordshire, in 1847.

The school covers eight hundred acres (three point two square kilometers) including playing fields, a golf course, lake and farmland.

It is one of four boys-only, boarding-only independent senior schools in the United Kingdom, the others being Winchester, Harrow and Eton.

The four other public schools  today have since become co-educational: Rugby (1976), Charterhouse (1971), Westminster, and Shrewsbury (2014).