O*fordshire is a loathsome construct of the 74 county reorganisation, when the Tories allowed it to steal lumps of historic Berkshire including the birthplace of Alfred the Great and abutt itself onto Wiltshire. A heinous crime.
Berkshire could be considered to have been the traditional eastern extent of Wessex, although other areas were brought in through the Saxon period by aggressive expansion.
What constitutes the ancient kingdom of Wessex has thus been flexible.
So Hardy has Christminster in Wessex in Jude the Obscure.
Happily the scum have crossed the 420 border winless to this day.
Excuse me for being really thick, but I didn't know this before. But did Oxfordshire not exist before 1974 then?
And if that's the case, Avon i presume was another 'County" made up and I thought that's got rid of now so couldn't they do the same with Oxfordshire.