The Ramsden Village Website
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Ramsden Fete & Dog Show
Saturday 13th June
About Ramsden
The Oxfordshire village of Ramsden lies on the north-
Ramsden once lay deep within the ancient royal hunting forest of Wychwood.
Here, a small settlement grew up adjacent to Akeman Street – The Roman road linking Cirencester with St. Albans – and was probably among the first parts of Wychwood Forest to be cleared for the purposes of settlement.
The ‘den’ of Ramsden is a corruption of ‘dene’, meaning wooded valley, while the ‘Ram’ prefix may derive from ‘hramsu’, or wild garlic: hence ‘wild garlic valley’.
Ramsden lies in a shallow valley -
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Submit your photo’s for the
2010 Ramsden Calendar
A huge ‘thank you’ to everyone who joined us for our Fete & Dog Show on Saturday and to all the volunteers who helped organise and put the show together.
We hope you all had a fun day!
Photographs from this year’s Fete and Ramsden Gardens Open will be posted here very soon.
If you have some you would like to send us, please email them to pics@ramsdenvillage.co.uk.
Here are just a few images.....more to follow.......
