The River Og is a short river in

Wiltshire Wiltshire (; abbreviated Wilts) is a historic and ceremonial county in South West England with an area of . It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset to the southwest, Somerset to the west, Hampshire to the southeast, Gloucestershire ...

, England. It rises near the hamlet of

Draycot Foliat Draycot Foliat is a hamlet in Wiltshire, England, on the back road between Chiseldon to the north and Ogbourne St. George to the south. The nearest major town is Swindon which is about north. A notable feature is the small airstrip with its mo ...

, and flows south for about through

Ogbourne St George Ogbourne St George is a village and civil parish on the River Og about north of Marlborough, Wiltshire, England. History Domesday Book of 1086 recorded a relatively large settlement of 71 households at ''Ocheborne'', corresponding to the la ...

Ogbourne St Andrew Ogbourne St Andrew is a civil parish and small village in Wiltshire, England, north of Marlborough. The parish is on the banks of the River Og and includes the hamlets of Ogbourne Maizey and Rockley. History Domesday Book of 1086 recorded a ...

and Ogbourne Maizey to the eastern edge of

Marlborough Marlborough may refer to: Places United Kingdom * Marlborough, Wiltshire, England ** Marlborough College, public school * Marlborough School, Woodstock in Oxfordshire, England * The Marlborough Science Academy in Hertfordshire, England Austral ...

, where it joins the

River Kennet The Kennet is a tributary of the River Thames in Southern England. Most of the river is straddled by the North Wessex Downs AONB (Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty). The lower reaches have been made navigable as the Kennet Navigation, which � ...

. The river flows through a gap in the

Marlborough Downs The North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) is located in the English counties of Berkshire, Hampshire, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire. The name ''North Wessex Downs'' is not a traditional one, the area covered being better k ...

which creates a natural transport route, now followed by the A346 and once used by the

Midland and South Western Junction Railway The Midland and South Western Junction Railway (M&SWJR) was an independent railway built to form a north–south link between the Midland Railway and the London and South Western Railway in England, allowing the Midland and other companies' tr ...

. The name is a

back-formation In etymology, back-formation is the process or result of creating a new word via inflection, typically by removing or substituting actual or supposed affixes from a lexical item, in a way that expands the number of lexemes associated with the c ...

from Ogbourne, which itself means ''Occa's stream''.Glover, J.E.B., Mawer, A. and Stenton, F.M. (1939) ''Place-names of Wiltshire'', p.9

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