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Banbury is a historic market town on the River Cherwell in Oxfordshire, South East England. It had a population of 46,853 at the 2011 census.[1] Banbury is a significant commercial and retail centre for the surrounding area of north Oxfordshire and southern parts of Warwickshire and Northamptonshire which are predominantly rural. Banbury's main industries are motorsport, car components, electrical goods, plastics, food processing and printing. Banbury is home to the world's largest coffee-processing facility (Jacobs Douwe Egberts), built in 1964. The town is famed for Banbury cakes, a spiced sweet pastry dish. Banbury is located north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham, south-east of Coventry and north-west of Oxford. As the quotation below proves, Banbury's history of manufacturing foodstuffs goes back a long way. A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Banbury from John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles of 1887:
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