Otmoor or Ottmor, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Otmoor or Ottmor, a common of about 4000 acres on the E border of Oxfordshire, on Akeman Street, adjacent to Bucks and to the river Ray, 6½ miles NE of Oxford. Roman pottery has been found in it around Akeman Street, and a Saxon camp is on it near Merton.

Church Records

Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Oxfordshire Family History Society and Oxfordshire History Centre, have images of the Parish Registers for Oxfordshire online.

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Oxfordshire newspapers online:

• Oxford Journal
• Banbury Advertiser
• Banbury Guardian
• Oxford University and City Herald
• Oxford Chronicle and Reading Gazette
• Faringdon Advertiser and Vale of the White Horse Gazette
• Oxford Times
• Banbury Beacon
• Ossett Observer