Wytham
Sign in to savethumb|Wytham Abbey from the air Wytham ( ) is a village and civil parish on the Seacourt Stream, a branch of the River Thames, about northwest of the centre of Oxford. It is just west of the Western By-Pass Road, part of the Oxford Ring Road (A34). The nearest village is Godstow. Wytham was the northernmost part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire.
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Place details
- Locality
- Vale of White Horse
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
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Key facts
- UK place.official_name
- Wytham
- UK place.static_image_name
- All Saints’ Church Wytham Front.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- All Saints' parish church
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SP4708
- UK place.label_position
- left
- UK place.population
- 131
- UK place.population_ref
- (2001 census)
- UK place.civil_parish
- Wytham
- UK place.shire_district
- Vale of White Horse
- UK place.shire_county
- Oxfordshire
- UK place.region
- South East England
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.post_town
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Vale of White Horse
- Population
- +136
- Body of water
- River Thames
- Shares border with
- Gosford and Water Eaton
- Official website
- www.wytham-village.org.uk
- Image
- Wytham All Saints exterior.JPG
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Article
8 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History of the manor
- The 20th century
- Wytham Great Wood
- Inspector Morse
- Gallery
- References
- External links
thumb|Wytham Abbey from the air Wytham ( ) is a village and civil parish on the Seacourt Stream, a branch of the River Thames, about northwest of the centre of Oxford. It is just west of the Western By-Pass Road, part of the Oxford Ring Road (A34). The nearest village is Godstow. Wytham was the northernmost part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire.
== Etymology == Wytham derives its name from the Anglo Saxon ''Witta's Home around 500 BCE. The toponym is first recorded as Wihtham'' around 957, and comes from the Old English for a homestead or village in a river-bend.