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Faringdon

town in Oxfordshire, England, UK
Place town Q663599
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Faringdon

Summary

Faringdon is a town[1]. Faringdon ranks in the top 5% of town entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (324 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Faringdon is located in Great Faringdon[3].
  • Faringdon is in the country of United Kingdom[4].
  • Faringdon's instance of is recorded as town[5].
  • Faringdon's instance of is recorded as market town[6].
  • Faringdon's shares border with is recorded as Carterton[7].
  • Faringdon's twinned administrative body is recorded as Le Mêle-sur-Sarthe[8].
  • Faringdon's postal code is recorded as SN7[9].
  • Faringdon's Commons category is recorded as Faringdon[10].
  • Faringdon's located in time zone is recorded as UTC±00:00[11].
  • Faringdon's local dialing code is recorded as 01367[12].
  • Faringdon's OS grid reference is recorded as SU286954[13].
  • Faringdon's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 51.657, 'lon': -1.586}[14].
  • Faringdon's authority is recorded as Faringdon Town Council[15].
  • Faringdon's official website is recorded as http://faringdontowncouncil.gov.uk/[16].
  • Faringdon's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Faringdon[17].
  • Faringdon has a population of {'amount': '+7121'}[18].
  • Faringdon's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[19].
  • Faringdon's category for people born here is recorded as Category:Births in Faringdon[20].
  • Faringdon's category of associated people is recorded as Category:People from Faringdon[21].
  • Faringdon's historic county is recorded as Berkshire[22].

Body

Geography

Faringdon is in the country of United Kingdom[4]. Faringdon is located in Great Faringdon[3].

Physical Characteristics

Faringdon has a population of {'amount': '+7121'}[18].

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include town[5] and market town[6].

Why It Matters

Faringdon ranks in the top 5% of town entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (324 views/month).[2] Faringdon has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] Faringdon is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

Related Entities

United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 6w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Great Faringdon
    Official website → http://faringdontowncouncil.gov.uk/
    Category of associated people → Category:People from Faringdon
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 51.657, 'lon': -1.586}
    + 17 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48912|batch #48912]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
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