Anthony Morris RSPB Otmoor pics A NEW national park should be created north east of Oxford to protect wetlands and woodlands in the area, an environmental campaign group has said. The 36 square mile reserve would cover most of the rural countryside north east of the Oxford Ring Road, between the A40 to the south, the A34 to the west, and the M40 to the north and east. It would include Otmoor, where there is already an RSPB nature reserve, Bernwood and Stowood forests, the site of special scientific interest at Sydlings Copse, and the Cherwell valley near Water Eaton. Campaign group Bioabundance has called for the area to be protected, possibly as a National Nature Reserve.