The Rugby World Cup trophy, won by England in such thrilling style, is coming to Oxfordshire in April.

The William Webb Ellis Cup - or Bill as it is affectionately known - will be paraded around the county's main towns on Sunday and Monday, April 25 & 26.

The Oxfordshire RFU are still planning the itinerary, but one place it is certain to go is Chipping Norton Rugby Club, who are staging the county's mini and junior festival on the Sunday.

Other planned destinations are Bury Knowle Park, Headington, site of the Oxfordshire RFU's office, Bicester Village and the Castle Key shopping centre in Banbury.

The county are hoping to stage a special dinner at Henley RFC, in the hope that England coach Sir Clive Woodward, who played his first representative rugby for Oxfordshire Collts, will speak at the club he used to coach.

"Planning is still at an early stage, but we'll try to make it possible for as many people as possible to the the trophy," said Oxon RFU secretary Colin Boulton.