Buscot

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Buscot is a village in Oxfordshire

Other current and historical names

Boroardescote

Parish/Community: Buscot
District/Borough: Vale of White Horse
County: Oxfordshire
Region: South East

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 51°40'39"N 1°40'3"W
Eastings/Northings: 423072, 197683
OS Grid: SU230976
Mapcode Local: GBR 5VC.Z01
Mapcode Global: VHC0K.13PC

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Buscot within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Buscot in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Buscot, par., NW. Berks, on river Isis, 4½ miles NW. of Farringdon, 2887 ac. (53 water), pop. 371; P.O.; contains Buscot Park.

Buscot in the Domesday Book

A village in Wyfold hundred, in the county of Berkshire.

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Earl Harold
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Earl Hugh
- Lords of the Manor in 1086: Drogo of les Andelys (subinfeudated); Ranulf of Mainwaring (subinfeudated); Robert son of Hugh (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 40 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £20 in 1066; £17 in 1070; £26 in 1086
- Households: 27 villagers; 31 smallholders; 6 slaves
- Plough Teams: 6 lord's ploughs; 8 men's ploughs (20 plough lands)
- Meadow: 300 acres
- Other resources: 1 fishery

British Place Names

Buscot, Oxfordshire

Buscot is a village in Oxfordshire

Buscot in historic gazetteers

Buscot in the Domesday Book