Otterbourne every Christmas and puts on concerts in and around the surrounding area. They also compete in the 1st Section of the National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain. Famous people from Otterbourne include Chris Tremlett who plays cricket for England and Surrey, and novelist Charlotte Mary Yonge. The village of Otterbourne, on the stream Otter Bourne, lies on the old Roman road between "Venta Belgarum" (Winchester) and "Clausentum" (Southampton). It appears in the Domesday Book as Otrebourne. The physicist Sir Isaac Newton lodged at Cranbury House in his twilight years, and John Keble, a leader of the Oxford Movement, settled
Venta de Baños the same sort of iconic status as other great railway junctions of the world, such as Crewe in the UK. Before the advent of dedicated high-speed rail routes and cheaper air travel, it was the principal transfer point for travellers between the north-east and north-west regions of Spain and the south. Generations of railway passengers have memories of the waiting rooms and cafeteria at Venta de Baños. The town hosts an annual international cross country running competition, the Cross Internacional de Venta de Baños, which has featured some of the world's foremost cross country athletes including Kenenisa Bekele and Palencian-born