You Are Here - Main Street - Oxton, Nottinghamshire - 'You Are Here' Maps on Waymarking.com

A You Are Here map and information board on Main Street, Oxton.

Te map gives a very brief history of the village, and shows various sites of interest around the area with a little information on each.

"Oxton is a village in Nottinghamshire, England, with a 568 residents at the 2011 census. It is located 5 miles west of Southwell, 5 miles north of Lowdham, 10 miles NE of Nottingham and 2 miles NE of Calverton, and lies on the B6386, and is very close to the A6097 trunk road.

Oxton has a church dedicated to St Peter & St Paul; a post office and two pubs. Oxton also has two fords – a small ford within the village itself, and a much larger ford on Beanford Lane – often as deep as 1 ft whilst remaining open to all traffic. It is however closed each March, so that the toads found in the swamp-like area,which the ford crosses, can breed.

Oxton seems to contain the Old English word for an ox, oxa, + tun (Old English), an enclosure; a farmstead; a village; an estate.., so 'Ox farm or settlement'."

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Notable residents -

Robert Scothorn - a Quaker, who sailed to America in 1684 to join William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania.
Robert St Vincent Sherbrooke - awarded the Victoria Cross, was born in Oxton.

Location Name: Oxton, Notts

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