Wootton

Wootton is about mid-way between Abingdon and Oxford in the shadow of Boars Hill, on the B4017. The old village, or what is left of it, lies along Sandy Lane and here can be found a sprinkling of thatched cottages and the attractive little parish church, St. Peter's, parts of which date from medieval times. St.Peter's was originally built as a small chapel-of-ease to the mother church at Cumnor.

The modern village comprises mainly housing estates with a lot of ribbon development spreading back towards Abingdon. In the centre is a small parade of shops and the public house.

The village name is derived from the Anglo-Saxon word meaning the township in the wood, Wood-tun. In Saxon times woodland covered all the lower slopes of the hill and much of the valley below.