Oxfordshire is a landlocked ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the north west of South East England. It is a mainly rural county with a few significant settlements, such as the city of Oxford, and the towns of Banbury and Abingdon. The county is recognised as a centre of research and development, with the University of Oxford widely considered one of the world's leading universities in both research and teaching. Oxfordshire is home to a concentration of technology and science at a number of locations in the county, such as the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus and Milton Park. The county is bordered by Warwickshire to the north west, Northamptonshire to the north east, Buckinghamshire to the east, Berkshire to the south, Wiltshire to the south west, and Gloucestershire to the w