Fencott

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Coordinates: 51°50′24″N 1°10′05″W / 51.840°N 1.168°W / 51.840; -1.168
Fencott

Corner Farm, Fencott
Fencott

 Fencott shown within Oxfordshire
OS grid reference SP574160
Civil parish Fencott and Murcott
District Cherwell
Shire county Oxfordshire
Region South East
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Kidlington
Postcode district OX5
Dialling code 01865
Police Thames Valley
Fire Oxfordshire
Ambulance South Central
EU Parliament South East England
UK Parliament Banbury
Website Fencott and Murcott Parish Council
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Fencott is a hamlet between the River Ray and Otmoor in the civil parish of Fencott and Murcott, about 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Bicester in Oxfordshire, England.

History

In 1542 the Crown granted most of the land at Murcott to the Dean and Chapter of Westminster Abbey.[1] They retained it until the end of the 19th century, when it passed to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners.[1]

There was also one hide of land that belonged to Abingdon Abbey.[1] In about 1180 the Abbot of Abingdon gave this holding in an exchange of land to one William Turpin.[1] In 1230 Godstow Abbey bought the land from Osbert Turpin, but had to continue paying quit-rent to Abingdon Abbey.[1] At the dissolution of the monasteries in the 1530s the land passed to the Crown, which disposed of it in 1553.[1]

Fencott used to have a public house, the Black Bull. It closed before 1939, but there is still a Black Bull Lane in the hamlet.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Lobel 1959, pp. 80–92.

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