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'). 

... MORE TO BE ADDED SOON!