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The Osse Stream or Osse Ditch, otherwise known as the Appleton Brook, is a small stream in the
The Osse Stream or Osse Ditch, otherwise known as the Appleton Brook, is a small stream in the Vale of White Horse
The Vale of White Horse is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district of Oxfordshire in England. It Historic counties of England, was historically part of Berkshire. The area is commonly referred to as the 'Vale of ''the'' White Hors ...
in Oxfordshire (historically in Berkshire).
The stream is a tributary of the River Ock
The River Ock is a small English river which is a tributary of the River Thames. It has as its catchment area the Vale of White Horse, a low-lying and wide valley in south Oxfordshire, and flows into the River Thames, at Abingdon on the reac ...
, with its confluence near Marcham Mill. The stream rises at a pond in Cumnor, flowing past Besselsleigh, Appleton
Appleton may refer to:
People and fictional characters
* Appleton (surname), including a list of people and fictional characters
* Appleton family, an American political, religious and mercantile family
* Appleton P. Clark Jr. (1865–1955), Am ...
, Fyfield, Frilford
Frilford is a hamlet and civil parish in the Vale of White Horse district of Oxfordshire, England. It is about west of Abingdon at the junction of the A415 and A338 roads. It was part of Berkshire until it transferred to Oxfordshire in the ...
and Marcham
Marcham is a village and civil parish about west of Abingdon, Oxfordshire. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 1,905. The parish includes the hamlets of Cothill east-northeast of the village, and Gozzard's Ford northeast o ...
.
Name
Thehydronym
A hydronym (from , , "water" and , , "name") is a type of toponym that designates a proper name of a body of water. Hydronyms include the proper names of rivers and streams, lakes and ponds, swamps and marshes, seas and oceans. As a subset of top ...
''Osse'' appears to be derived from the Old English
Old English ( or , or ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages. It developed from the languages brought to Great Britain by Anglo-S ...
word ''Wase'', meaning 'mud'.
See also
* Tributaries of the River Ock *List of rivers of England
This is a list of rivers of England, organised geographically and taken anti-clockwise around the English coast where the various rivers discharge into the surrounding seas, from the Solway Firth on the Scottish border to the Welsh Dee on the W ...
References
Vale of White Horse Rivers of Oxfordshire Thames drainage basin {{England-river-stub