The boundaries of this county were greatly modified in the reorganization of local government. In 1974, a substantial area of Berkshire was transferred to Oxfordshire, including Abingdon, Faringdon, East & West Hendred, Wallingford, and Wantage. Information on these places must be sought in the Berkshire volumes. Introduction (with sections on geology and settlement by W. J. Arkell). Bibliography, notes on the dialect, road and river names, place-names of the City of Oxford, and of the Hundreds of Langree, Binfield, Pyrton, Lewknor, Thame, Dorchester, Bullingdon, and Ploughley. Parish names in this Part include Benson, Culham, Dorchester, Henley upon Thames, Lewknor and Thame.