Oddington, Oxfordshire

Oddington is a village and civil parish about 5 miles (8 km) south of Bicester in Oxfordshire, England.

[1] The toponym is derived from the Old English [dubious – discuss], possibly after the same person who gave his name to Otmoor.

[2] A mention of Oddington in a Papal bull written in 1146 suggests that the village had a parish church by the middle of the 12th century.

The first is an early 16th-century monumental brass in memory of Ralph Hamsterley, who had been parish priest and died in 1518.

The 1923 Grouping made the L&NWR part of the new London, Midland and Scottish Railway, which closed Oddington Halt in 1926.

The LMS was nationalised as part of British Railways in 1948, which ended passenger services in 1967 and reduced the line to single track.

[verification needed] The H5 bus ("Stagecoach") runs hourly on weekdays only between Bicester and the John Radcliffe Hospital in Headington, Oxford, and will stop at the Charlton-on-Otmoor turn about one mile away.

The monumental brass of Ralph Hamsterley (died 1518) at Oddington in Oxfordshire. Hamsterley was rector of Oddington and also warden of University College Oxford. This brass, which shows his body wrapped in a shroud being eaten by worms, was one of five identical brasses Hamsterley laid down before his death. Only one (at Oxford) was over his grave.
Grave of Margaret Staples Browne in St Andrew's churchyard. Browne was a Māori princess whose maiden name was Papakura