Post Office Ltd has announced the closure of 22 post office branches across Oxfordshire.

The closure announcement - which was made at 10am - confirmed all 22 branches on the hit-list would close.

The closures came despite an Oxford Mail campaign to save the branches, which included a 6,000-signature petition handed into Downing Street.

During a six-week local public consultation, Post Office Ltd received about 3,700 responses and attended 35 meetings with customers and their representatives.

The branches on the list are:

  • Ardington Stores, High Street, Ardington, near Wantage
  • Woodstock Road East, Begbroke, Kidlington
  • Childrey, High Street, Childrey, near Wantage
  • Park Road, Combe, near Witney
  • The Street, Crowmarsh Gifford, near Wallingford
  • The Amigo Shop, Cholswell Road, Abingdon
  • Oxford Road, Farmoor, Oxford
  • Main Road, Fyfield, Abingdon
  • Abingdon Road, Oxford
  • Middleton Road, Grimsbury, Banbury
  • Church Way, Iffley, Oxford
  • Villiers Road, Bicester
  • High Street, Long Wittenham,
  • Orchard Way, Banbury
  • Stanmore Crescent, Carterton,
  • Middle Road, Stanton St John, Oxford
  • Stream Road, Upton
  • West End, Witney
  • Godstow Road, Wolvercote
  • Wootton Road, Abingdon
  • Woodstock, Oxford
  • Wytham, Oxford

The following branches will be replaced by what Post Office Ltd has called "outreach solutions". Details of exactly what this will mean and how the service will be provided are still being finalised.

  • Horseshoe Lane, Chadlington,
  • The Green, Enstone,
  • Great Rollright, Chipping Norton
  • The Green, Great Tew
  • Tackley Village Shop, Medcroft Road, Tackley, near Kidlington.

Mark Partington, Post Office Ltd's Network Development Manager for Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire, said: "These are difficult decisions which have not been taken lightly. "We have considered very carefully all the comments made during the public consultation.

"We believe that the amended plan announced today offers our customers across Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire the best prospect for a sustainable network in the future, bearing in mind the Government's minimum access criteria and the other factors it has asked us to consider."