Wytham

thumb|Wytham Abbey from the air Wytham ( ) is a village and civil parish on the Seacourt Stream, a branch of the River Thames, about northwest of the centre of Oxford. It is just west of the Western By-Pass Road, part of the Oxford Ring Road (A34). The nearest village is Godstow. Wytham was the northernmost part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire.

== Etymology == Wytham derives its name from the Anglo Saxon ''Witta's Home around 500 BCE. The toponym is first recorded as Wihtham'' around 957, and comes from the Old English for a homestead or village in a river-bend.