TOWNS and villages across Oxfordshire are preparing to remember their war dead on Remembrance Sunday with ceremonies at a number of memorials.

In Oxford city centre, a Remembrance Service will be held in St Giles, starting at 10.45am, and will be attended by Oxford's Lord Mayor Jim Campbell, city councillors, the Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire, and representatives from the county council and Oxford universities.

Among the wreaths laid at the St Giles war memorial in Oxford will be one by Henri Lenferink, the Burgomaster of Leiden, Oxford's Dutch twin city.

North Hinksey Parish Council is organising the annual Service of Remembrance in the Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery in North Hinksey Lane, Botley. The ceremony starts at 10.45am.

At Kidlington, the Remembrance Day service will take place at St Mary's Church at 10am, followed by the wreath laying at 10.45am and the two minutes' silence at 11am.

Village organisations, including members of the Royal British Legion, Scouts and Guides, St John Ambulance and Army and Air Cadets, will then take part in a march to High Street.

The main events in the south of the county will be in Abingdon, Wallingford and Didcot, with marches through the towns, and wreath-laying ceremonies led by the mayors.

In Wallingford, the Remembrance Day events will have an added dimension, with an exhibition in the town hall featuring details of every person on the war memorial.

That will be open between 10am and 4pm on Saturday and 12.30pm to 3pm on Sunday.

And at the Corn Exchange on Saturday and Sunday there is a one-man show, Forever England, based on writing froms the First World War. It will be staged on Saturday at 8pm and on Sunday at 3pm and 8pm.

Wallingford Mayor Nigel Moor will take the salute at the parade on Sunday at 11am and will lead the wreath-laying, during which every name on the war memorial will be read out.

At St Agatha's, in Brightwell-cum-Sotwell, there will be a service at the war memorial at 10.55am.

In Didcot at 11am on Saturday, a remembrance service will be held at the war memorial, along with a two-minute silence.

On Sunday, the Didcot parade will start from the Edinburgh Drive car park, at 2.45pm, and march via Broadway to the war memorial at the Civic Hall, where a united service will be held followed by the wreath-laying. The parade will be led by a pipe and drum band.

At Dorchester Abbey, the Rector, the Rev Sue Booys, who is also chaplain to the local branch of the Royal British Legion, will conduct a service in the Abbey at 10am. The Act of Remembrance follows at the war memorial at 11am.

At Benson, the Act of Remembrance will be at the war memorial in Castle Square at 11am on Sunday.

At Wantage war memorial, by the parish church, there will be a Service of Remembrance at 11am on Sunday.

And at Abingdon, there will be a church service at 10am, followed by the parade to the war memorial for the Act of Remembrance at the war memorial off Ock Street at 11am.

After the two minutes' silence, Mayor Peter Green will take the salute as the returning parade marches past.

In West Oxfordshire on Sunday, there will be a Remembrance Day Service at Hailey War Memorial, at 9.45am.

There will also be a service at the war memorial in Church Green, Witney, at 10.50am.

Charlbury Remembrance Day parade on Sunday will begin at 2.30pm in the Spendlove car park and end at St Marys Church where a service will be held from 3pm.

The parade will be led by pipers of the Scottish Guard Association and the salute will be taken by Lady Gillian Clarke, who was in the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) attached to the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War.

The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams is to attend a Remembrance Sunday service, on Sunday, November 12, at St John's Church, Burford Road, in Carterton, at 9.45 am.

There will be a service at War memorial by Town Hall in Alvescot Road at 10.50 am. This will be followed by a parade down Alvescot Road at 11.15am with the salute taken by the Group Captain of RAF Brize Norton.

Main roads in Carterton including Alvescot Road, Black Bourton Road and Burford Road will all close from 10.30 am to 11.30 am.

In Bicester, the Remembrance Day service and parade will take place at St Edburg's Church, The Causeway, from 10.50am. A parade in Market Square will follow the service.

In Banbury, at 10.15am on Sunday, a Service of Remembrance is being held at St Mary's Church in the Horsefair, following a procession from the town hall.

This will be followed by a wreath-laying ceremony in People's Park at the Cenotaph.