It was reorganised as a junior school in 1937 and became a voluntary controlled school in 1951. It is now Charlton-on-Otmoor Church of England Primary School with over 100 children attending the school and pre-school. Public houses The George and Dragon was where locals formed the Otmoor Association in 1830, leading to the Otmoor Riots in opposition to plans to drain and enclose Otmoor. The rioters achieved their aim, and the villagers continued to farm a four-field open field system. A later attempt at enclosure in 1858 was successful. The Crown continues to trade. Local groups The Otmoor branch of the WI meets monthly at Charlton-on-Otmoor Community Hall. Transport Bus The first regular bus service on Otmoor was started in the 1920s and after a change of ownership in the 1950s was renamed Charlton Services. The company continues to provide Charlton-on-Otmoor and neighbouring villages with a service to Oxford via Islip. Phyllis Maycock (1922–2005) was a bus conductor with Charlton Services for 49 years, retiring in December 1992. In the 1994 New Year Honours, Maycock was made an MBE "For services to the Bus Industry". Also in 1994, Maycock starred in an episode of This Is Your Life. Railway The Buckinghamshire Railway between and passes through Charlton parish and was completed in 1851. The London and North Western Railway took it over in 1879 and opened , north of the village, in 1905. The 1923 Grouping made the L&NWR part of the new London, Midland and Scottish Railway, which closed Charlton Halt in 1926. The LMS was nationalised as part of British Railways in 1948, which ended passenger services in 1967 and reduced the line to single track. Oxfordshire County Council arranged for British Rail to reopen the line in 1987 and Islip station in 1988. From 2014 to 2016 Network Rail rebuilt the railway as a main line linked to the Chiltern Main Line by a junction at Bicester. The nearest railway station is , from Charlton. It is served by Chiltern Railways with direct trains to via and via . References Sources and further reading Civil parishes in Oxfordshire Villages in Oxfordshire Otmoor