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
Cowbridge (Roman town) Cowbridge (Roman town) Cowbridge was a small castra in Roman Wales within the Roman province of Britannia Superior. Today the contemporary settlement, Cowbridge, has a population of roughly 3,600. Its name in Latin is unknown, although it is the strongest candidate for Bovium (corrected from the ablative Bomio) of the Antonine Itinerary. Its remains have been discovered beneath Cowbridge in the Welsh county of Vale of Glamorgan, previously Glamorganshire. A Roman bath house or Thermae, abandoned by the early 2nd century, has been discovered which had bricks stamped by the 2nd Legion, suggesting perhaps some kind of early military establishment