Carterton is a town in West Oxfordshire district in the county of Oxfordshire, England and is 4 miles south-west of Witney. The 2011 …Carterton is a town in West Oxfordshire district in the county of Oxfordshire, England and is 4 miles south-west of Witney. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 15,769. Much of what is now the northern part of the town was held by the Moleyns family from at least 1369, but in 1429 William Lord Moleyns was killed at the siege of Orléans and the land passed to the Hungerford family. During the medieval period the main road through Carterton was one of the most important in the country, taking trains of packhorses laden with Cotswold wool over Radcot Bridge and on to Southampton for export to the weaving centre of Europe. In the 1770s the land was acquired by the Duke of Marlborough.
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