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Distorted Oxfordshire: St Mary's Church, Banbury (4)
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The writer Jonathan Swift hinted in the preface to the 1726 edition of his book, Gulliver's Travels, that he took the name of his hero from tombstones he saw in Banbury churchyard. No memorials from the period survive, though the name came be found on more recent examples. A modern stone - in the foreground on the right of this picture - recalls the story.