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
New England town the Massachusetts Constitution requires a town to have a population of at least 10,000 people before it can switch its government from a town meeting form to a city form. Nevertheless, even without a hard and fast population limit for city status, the practical threshold to become a city seems to be higher in the three southern New England states than in the three northern New England states. In Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island, almost every city has at least 10,000 people, and all but a few have at least 20,000. In Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, however, there are