Christmas Common

LOCAL interest in Sunday's Boat Races centred on Felix Newman, bowman in the victorious Cambridge crew, whose home is in Christmas Common, writes Robert Treharne Jones. The third year engineering student at Selwyn College had been determined ...

It must be one the most festive-sounding places in the UK - but how did the hamlet of Christmas Common in south Oxfordshire get its name? The picturesque surroundings were the site of fighting during the English Civil War and one local historian ...

A Christmas tree grower has won a contest to supply No 10 Downing Street for a record-breaking third time. Andrew Ingram, from Christmas Common, near Watlington, Oxfordshire, supplied the 20ft (6.1m) tree after winning this year's British Christmas ...

For a third year, the Oxfordshire Christmas tree-grower has won a national competition to supply the Christmas tree for No. 10 Downing Street. Mr Ingram, 67, owns Tree Barn, a Christmas tree nursery at the aptly named Christmas Common, near Watlington.

ONE of the most viewed Christmas trees in the country will be provided by a grower from Christmas Common after he won a competition for the third time. The Tree Barn, which is run by Andrew Ingram and his wife Jane, will supply the tree to No 10 ...

However, the 25-year-old, from Christmas Common, near Watlington, had to rely on being one of four fastest losers after missing out on automatic qualification. Clarke came fifth in 13.61secs in his heat, which was won by Olympic champion Aries Merritt.