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Extract from the Buckingham Travel Guides:
Unassuming
BUCKINGHAM
is tucked into a sharp bend in the River Ouse about twenty-five miles northeast of Oxford. It became the county town of Buckinghamshire in the tenth century and flourished during medieval times, but it was bypassed by the Industrial Revolution and remained a forgotten backwater until a recent wave of incomers created the modern suburbs that surround it today. The town centre is at its prettiest along the wide, sloping Market Hill, standing in the middle of which is the
Old Gaol
, a chunky, stone structure that is home to the
tourist office
and a modest, local history
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