banbury

/ˈbænbɹi/

Etymology

From Old English Bannanburg, from Old English *Banna (“name of a 6th-century Saxon chieftain said to have built a stockade in that place”) or bana, bona (“a byname meaning ‘felon, murderer’”) (see bane) + burgh (“borough; settlement; town”).

name

A market town and civil parish with a town council, on the River Cherwell in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP4540).

noun

A Banbury cake.
A yellow, strongly-flavoured cheese.
A type of codebreaking sheet printed in Banbury and used by Bletchley Park to decipher the Enigma cipher during World War II.