Blewbury is a civil parish and village, about four and a half miles south of Didcot, now administered by the Vale of White Horse District Council of Oxfordshire, England. It used to be in the Royal County of Berkshire. The 2001 census recorded the population of the parish as 1,528. Long popular with artists and writers, Blewbury has over the years been home to: Kenneth Grahame, Barbara Euphan Todd (writer of the Worzel Gummidge books), Dick Francis and Marguerite Steen .

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