Merton
Merton is a village and civil parish near the River Ray, about 4 miles south of Bicester in Oxfordshire, England. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 424.Photo: Motacilla, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 449 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England
- Also known as: “Merton, Oxfordshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Swithin and Alice’s Meadow.
Alice’s Meadow
Meadow
Alice's Meadow is the name given to a small field in the Oxfordshire parish of Fencott and Murcott, England. It became the focus of a campaign by local people and Friends of the Earth in the 1980s, who opposed government plans to route the M40 motorway across Otmoor.
Woodsides Meadow
Nature reserve
Photo: Dudley Miles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Woodsides Meadow is a 4-hectare nature reserve south of Wendlebury in Oxfordshire. It is managed by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fencott and Charlton-on-Otmoor.
Fencott
Village
Photo: David Hawgood, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Fencott is a hamlet between the River Ray and Otmoor in the civil parish of Fencott and Murcott, about 4 miles south of Bicester in Oxfordshire, England.
Charlton-on-Otmoor
Village
Photo: Motacilla, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Charlton-on-Otmoor is a village and civil parish about 9 miles NE of Oxford and 6 miles SW of Bicester in the Cherwell district, in the county of Oxfordshire, England.
Murcott
Village
Photo: Motacilla, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Murcott is a village between the River Ray and Otmoor in the civil parish of Fencott and Murcott, about 4 miles south of Bicester in Oxfordshire, England.
Merton
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Merton, Cherwell, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.85464° or 51° 51′ 17″ northLongitude
-1.16483° or 1° 9′ 53″ westPopulation
449Elevation
223 feet (68 metres)Open location code
9C3WVR3P+V3OpenStreetMap ID
node 144547626OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2642703Wikidata ID
Q1776936
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Merton” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Merton”
- Chinese: “Merton”
- Dutch: “Merton”
- French: “Merton”
- Irish: “Merton”
- Italian: “Merton (Oxfordshire)”
- Italian: “Merton”
- Ladin: “Merton (Oxfordshire)”
- Ladin: “Merton”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Merton (Oxfordshire)”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Merton”
- Norwegian: “Merton”
- Persian: “مرتون، آکسفوردشر”
- Polish: “Merton”
- Swedish: “Merton, Oxfordshire”
- Swedish: “Merton”
- Turkish: “Merton, Oxfordshire”
- “Merton”
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Notable Places Nearby
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