Meanings of Local Place Names
BICESTER = 'Beorna's fort of the warriors'.
AMBROSDEN = 'Ambre's Hill'.
MURCOTT = 'Cottages by the moor'.
HORTON-CUM-STUDLEY = 'Muddy place with clearing in the woods to graze horses'.
FENCOTT = 'Cottages near long, narrow boggy area/moor'.
CHARLTON-ON-OTMOOR = 'Town of the free men/Otta's moor'.
NOKE = 'Place of the oak'.
BECKLEY = 'Becka's clearing in the wood'.
ODDINGTON = 'Odda or Otta's hill'.
WOODEATON = 'Homestead on an island amidst the woods'.
BLACKTHORN = 'black thorn' (from the Old English 'blaec-þorn' or 'þyrne').
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