Old Chalford is a hamlet

Hamlet (place)

A hamlet is usually a rural settlement which is too small to be considered a village, though sometimes the word is used for a different sort of community. Historically, when a hamlet became large enough to justify building a church, it was then classified as a village...

 in Enstone civil parish, about 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire.

Old Chalford is on the River Glyme

River Glyme

The River Glyme is a river in Oxfordshire, England. It is a tributary of the River Evenlode. It rises about east of Chipping Norton, and flows south east past Old Chalford, Enstone, Kiddington, Glympton and Wootton, Woodstock and through Blenheim Park. At Wootton the Glyme is joined by a...

, which is dammed in the hamlet forming a number of ponds. The Wychwood Way

Wychwood Way

The Wychwood Way is a waymarked long-distance footpath in southern England in the United Kingdom.-The route:The Wychwood Way runs through the ancient Royal Forest of Wychwood in West Oxfordshire....

 long distance footpath passes through the hamlet. About 0.5 miles (804.7 m) southeast of Old Chalford are old earthworks and ruins of limestone walls which are the remains of the deserted medieval village

Deserted medieval village

In the United Kingdom, a deserted medieval village is a former settlement which was abandoned during the Middle Ages, typically leaving no trace apart from earthworks or cropmarks. If there are fewer than three inhabited houses the convention is to regard the site as deserted; if there are more...

of Nether Chalford.