The River Dorn is a river in

Oxfordshire Oxfordshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the north west of South East England. It is a mainly rural county, with its largest settlement being the city of Oxford. The county is a centre of research and development, primarily ...

, England, that is a tributary of the

River Glyme A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of wate ...

. The river rises from the limestone uplands of north

, about east of

Chipping Norton Chipping Norton is a market town and civil parish in the Cotswold Hills in the West Oxfordshire district of Oxfordshire, England, about south-west of Banbury and north-west of Oxford. The 2011 Census recorded the civil parish population as ...

, and flows southeast past

Little Tew Little is a synonym for small size and may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Little'' (album), 1990 debut album of Vic Chesnutt * ''Little'' (film), 2019 American comedy film *The Littles, a series of children's novels by American author John P ...

; through

Sandford St. Martin Sandford St Martin is a village and civil parish in West Oxfordshire about east of Chipping Norton and about south of Banbury. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 209. Geography The parish measures about north–south, just ...

, where it forms part of

Sandford Park Sandford may refer to: People * Baron Sandford * Baron Mount Sandford * Sandford (surname) * Sandford Fleming (1827-1915), Scottish-Canadian engineer and inventor of Standard Time Places Australia * Sandford, Tasmania * Sandford, Victoria Canada ...

's gardens; and through the Bartons:

Westcott Barton Westcott Barton, also spelt Wescot Barton or Wescote Barton, is a village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish on the River Dorn in West Oxfordshire about east of Chipping Norton and about south of Banbury. The parish is bounded to the ...

, Middle Barton, where Cockley Brook joins it, and

Steeple Barton Steeple Barton is a civil parish and scattered settlement on the River Dorn in West Oxfordshire, about east of Chipping Norton, a similar distance west of Bicester and south of Banbury. Most of the parish's population lives in the village of ...

— before it joins the River Glyme just east of Wootton . The River Dorn flows though the Soho Farmhouse members club, part of Soho House (club) between Little Tew and Stanford St Martin.

References

Rivers of Oxfordshire Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Oxfordshire West Oxfordshire District 2Dorn {{England-river-stub