Milton-under-Wychwood

Extract from Discovering Wychwood by Charles Keighley

1km (0.5 miles) west of Shipton-under-Wychwood. From the Old English, meaning 'middle town'. Milton is a large living and working village with a green and cricket pitch at its centre.

• St Simon and St Jude Church, towards Bruern, by G. E. Street, 1854. Unusually for a Victorian church its simple exterior belies a spacious interior.
• Nearby former school and teacher's house also by Street, and later 'Queen Anne' vicarage by Jackson.
• Several shops, including butcher, Co-op, post office, builders merchants, and TV & hi-fi supplier.
• Library.
• The Quart Pot public house with bar food, and Hillborough House B&B.
• A hilly and undulating parish, rising from the clays by the River Evenlode to oolitic limestone at Milton Downs.
• Small grassy fields with neat hedgerows lie between the village and the river. Elsewhere, larger arable fields with some gappy hedges and walls. Several copses mark the horizon to south-west.
• Important habitats are limestone grasslands above the village, and some calcareous fen fed by a series of streams in the south-west of the parish.
• Walks north-west towards Fifield, north along Oxfordshire Way to Bruern and east to Diggers community wood and Shipton.

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