Newspaper cutting linking a distraction burglary in a house on Mount Owen Road, Bampton with one in Deddington. May 2015.

Bampton Meadows to be built bottom on Mt Owen Road, East side

PDF plan of the new houses and showing the Names of the Roads
Radband Nook
Dixey Crescent
Collett Drive
Dor Close
Andrews Way
Jingy Wells Drive
Cambria Mews
Constable Place

Third of 3 Second Edition 1899 Ordnance Survey Maps Showing Mount Owen Road towards Lew. There are some pencil notes and some fields are coloured yellow.
The following places are shown
Lew Lodge
Coalpit Farm
Mount Owen Farm
Ditcham Wood
Rushey Butts

Ordnance Survey Plan SP3203-3303. 1971 Extending from Mt Owen Rd east inc. Gogg Lane, Aston Road and part of Aston. showing the following places:
New Road
White Owl Farm
Bradshaw Close
Kenlincott
Kiln Close
Back Lane
Greenacres Lane
Elmside
Barry House
Ferndale
Back Cottage

Byeways
Laundry Lane
Kingsway Farm
High Street West End
The Limes
West End Farm
Home Farm House
Greens Row
Elvina
Aston Ditch
Mercury Close
Beam Cottage
Old Gasworks Building
New Road
The Willows
St Andrews

View from Mount Owen

This picture shows the view down Mount Owen road. The spire of Saint Mary The Virgin church is visible on the skyline and the yellow crop of oilseed rape tells us it is April in 1991

These three maps are all labelled as 2nd edition 1899. They cover the area Central Bampton, north & south, east nearly to Aston, Black Bourton south to Cowleaze Corner, east to Elephant & Castle in Bridge Street and Mt Owen Rd, west to road going up to Lew now called Station Road.
They not only show the buildings but someone has written on in pencil when certain plots were sold and to whom.
Interesting to see the clear fish-farming area with the Deanery then called Deanery Farm, Cobb House simply called Vicarage, Churchgate House called Trinity Vicarage. The third vicarage is today called Kilmore House and is almost opposite the East window of St. Mary's.
What today is called Bridge Street was then called Mill Street and the mill was just to the left of path to Sandford Field from Bridge St. The legend is the mill wheel was buried in the plot to the left of the brook walking to the field from Bridge St and the tree there today was planted at its centre.