Oldox Camp hillfort and Robin Hood Hill
Oxton
A Nottinghamshire village of Norman church fabric, community gathering places and a short trail into much older hills.
- Best for
- Local history, short walks and a pub stop
- Give it
- A half day around the village and hills
- Don't miss
- Oldox Camp and Robin Hood Hill
The Fox verdict
A compact base for old stories and short walks
Oxton pairs a Norman-core church and active village institutions with an Iron Age hillfort and Robin Hood lore beyond.
Come for a measured mix of parish history, village life and food, then follow the local walking country towards Oldox Camp and Robin Hood Hill.
Where to go
Places in Oxton
Every place below is checked against a published source, listed with what it is and how long to give it.
Local signatures
3 placesYe Olde Bridge Inn
A family-run independent gastropub serving seasonal British produce, with countryside terraces, a beer garden and three outdoor dining domes.
- Visit length
- Editorial estimate: Allow around 90 minutes
- Locality
- just off the A614
- Access
- Dog friendly, with a beer garden and a children's playground on site.
Robin Hood Hill
A small, steep hill between Oxton and Farnsfield near Oldox Camp; its mound was once suggested as a Bronze Age barrow but is almost certainly natural.
- Visit length
- Editorial estimate: Allow around 45 minutes
- Locality
- Robin Hood Hill, north of Oxton between Oxton and Farnsfield
Oxton Village Hall
A multi-purpose venue for weddings, parties, classes, meetings and performances.
- Visit length
- Editorial estimate: Allow around 30 minutes
- Locality
- Main Street
History & heritage
2 placesSt Peter & St Paul's Church
A Grade I church with a 12th-century Norman core, an embattled west tower and rich, rustic 1927 choir-stall woodwork.
- Visit length
- Editorial estimate: Allow around 45 minutes
- Locality
- Oxton
Oldox Camp
A well-preserved multivallate Iron Age hillfort of roughly 4.5 acres, with three tiers of rampart on its steep eastern side.
- Visit length
- Editorial estimate: Allow around 60 minutes
- Locality
- about 1.1 miles north-north-east of Oxton village centre
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Three ways to explore Oxton
Signature outings
Norman core, rustic woodwork
Look for the church's Norman core, embattled west tower and rich, rustic 1927 choir-stall woodwork.
Three tiers at Oldox Camp
Follow the form of a roughly oval hillfort whose steep eastern side carries three tiers of rampart.
Robin Hood Hill
Climb the small, steep hill near Oldox Camp, whose natural mound was once suggested as a Bronze Age barrow and linked in local legend with Robin Hood's hidden loot.
The village story
Oxton Village Guide
Fords, village institutions and Sherbrooke stories lead into an older landscape of ramparts and legend.
The ford and village life
Every March, the parish closes the ford on Beanford Lane to traffic so the toads can breed in the swampy ground around it. The smaller ford within the village stays open all year, rarely more than a foot deep, and cars go through it without much ceremony.
Two pubs serve Oxton. The Old Green Dragon sits in the centre of the Oxton Estate and won Nottingham LocAle Pub of the Year in 2023 and 2024. It serves six changing beers and two to six ciders, including Timothy Taylor's Landlord and rotating LocAles. Chef Blake prepares dishes including beer-battered haddock with triple-cooked chips, sausage and mash, and a 32oz rump steak. A fenced dog garden has benches, parasols, free treats and dog beds.
Food, play and village life
Ye Olde Bridge Inn, just off the A614, has three outdoor dining domes, with space for up to eight in a standard dome and up to 14 in its XL dome. It serves seasonal British produce, including Nottinghamshire-reared beef and Oxton-grown carrots. Sunday roasts are a draw, and the inn has its own children's playground.
Oxton Village Hall on Main Street is a multi-purpose venue for weddings, parties, classes, meetings and performances.
Church fabric and Oxton's Sherbrookes
St Peter & St Paul's has a Norman core under substantial Victorian rebuilding. The 1927 choir-stall woodwork has a rich, rustic character. In 1584 a member of the Sherbrooke family is recorded decorating the tower with ale poles. Margaret Sherbrooke later founded a school charity in 1783 to teach the village's poor children.
Oxton produced two Sherbrookes worth knowing. John Coape Sherbrooke, born here in 1764, went on to govern Canada. Rear-Admiral Robert St Vincent Sherbrooke, born in 1901, won the Victoria Cross commanding the destroyer escort of an Arctic convoy at the Battle of the Barents Sea in December 1942, against a German cruiser and pocket battleship. Wounded and temporarily blinded early in the action, he kept directing his ships and insisted on hearing every report until the convoy was safe.
Hillfort, legend and long memory
Oldox Camp, an Iron Age hillfort with three tiers of rampart rising on its eastern slope, is about 1.1 miles north-north-east of Oxton village centre in a straight line. It makes a natural loop with Robin Hood Hill, whose natural mound was once suggested as a Bronze Age burial site and is linked by local legend to Robin Hood's hidden loot. Lowdham station is five miles off; the 747 bus links Oxton to Calverton and Lowdham.
At Domesday the manor was valued at two pounds in 1066, falling to one by 1086. Nine hundred years on, the toads still get the ford to themselves every March.
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Sources
Every place on this page is checked against a published source. Each entry links the record we used and names who publishes it.
- Ye Olde Bridge Inn — yeoldebridgeinn.co.uk operator, sector body or destination organisation
- St Peter & St Paul's Church — historicengland.org.uk statutory register or public authority record not machine-readable; publisher restricts automated access
- Oldox Camp — historicengland.org.uk statutory register or public authority record not machine-readable; publisher restricts automated access
- Robin Hood Hill — robinhoodway.com operator, sector body or destination organisation
- Oxton Village Hall — oxtonparishcouncil.gov.uk statutory register or public authority