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Wytham is a village and civil parish on Seacourt Stream, a branch of the River Thames, about northwest of Oxford. It is just west of the Western By-Pass Road, part of the Oxford Ring Road (A34). Wytham was the northernmost part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire. The toponym is first recorded as ''Wihtham'' around AD 957, and comes from the Old English for a homestead or village in a river-bend.〔Mills & Room, 2003, page not cited〕 The manor of Wytham along with Wytham Abbey (not a religious foundation but the manor house) and much of the village was formerly owned by the Earls of Abingdon. The Church of England parish church of All Saints is a medieval building extensively rebuilt between 1811〔Page & Ditchfield, 1924, pages 427-430〕 and 1812〔Pevsner, 1966, page 314〕 by Montagu Bertie, 5th Earl of Abingdon. Wytham Woods is an area of long-established mixed woodland noted for their high population of badgers and long-term monitoring of great tits. The woods are a Site of Special Scientific Interest. The University of Oxford owns the woods and uses them for research in zoology and climate change. The University also has a field station north of the village. Wytham village and Wytham Woods have frequently featured in the "Inspector Morse" detective novels by Colin Dexter. ==Gallery== Image:Wytham.jpg|The centre of Wytham, with the village shop on the left and the White Hart pub on the right File:Keepers Cottage, Wytham Woods - geograph.org.uk - 307425.jpg|Keepers Cottage, Wytham Woods, a gift to the University of Oxford in 1943 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wytham」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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