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Funtasia, Warwick Road, Banbury
- Indoor adventure play centre for  children. Tel: 01295 250866 Open: Mon-Thurs 10-6pm Fri-Sun 10-7pm

1Tourist  Information Centre and Banbury Museum, have now  moved from 8 Horsefair.
The new Tourist Information Centre at the canalside  in the Castle Quay centre is now open to the public.
And the new Banbury Museum opens Spring 2002.
2The Cross, Horsefair. The cross  dates from 1859 when it was erected to commemorate the marriage of Victoria to  the Crown Prince of Prussia. Designed by J.Gibbs of Oxford. Figures of Victoria  and George V added in 1914.

3Linden House, Opposite the  Cross, in a row of 18th Century former family homes

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4 The White Lion, 19th Century coaching  inn.


5 Butchers Row, a  street originally lined with butchers stalls, now home to a series of spandrels  and ironwork ornaments marking Banbury as an agricultural and market town.

685-87 High Street, the Edward  Vivers building, site of a cake shop, noticeable for its beautiful 17th Century  facade.
7Castle Quay Shopping Centre,
Cornhill. The facade  is the entrance to the former Corn Exchange of 1857. A statue of Ceres adorns  the pediment.

8St Mary's  Church,
built 1790 as a replacement for a large Gothic church. Classical  style akin to Wren's London Churches.

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