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Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Dean & Chapter of Wells
… whereof 5 acres lie on the north side of the road to Burcot at the head of a cultura of the bishop's demesne …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 1800. Watercolour in S.P.L., J. H. Smith colln. no. 126 7 Burcot: tollhouse. Photograph by P. A. Stamper, 1983 8 …
A History of the County of Worcester
… named Burnford, Fockbury, 6 Catshill, Chadwick, Shepley, Burcot, 7 Padestones or Spadesbourne, Timberhonger, Woodcote … of which are situated at the top of the Lickey and at Burcot and Headless Cross. A cemetery under the control of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Parishes Burcot BURCOT Burcot lies on the north bank of the Thames, 1 miles … district and rural district from Dorchester. 3 In 1932 Burcot civil parish was transferred to Clifton Hampden. 4 Its …
A History of the County of Oxford
… they were enlarged by the addition of the civil parish of Burcot. 2 The area was thereby increased from 1,245 acres to … Thames extending from the eastern boundary of Culham to Burcot. 4 The main Dorchester to Abingdon road runs through … at Clifton were one of the problems that the Oxford-Burcot Commission had to consider after its establishment by …
A History of the County of Oxford
… century the river was certainly navigable from Henley to Burcot; and from there, although with some difficulty, to … the Tudor period meant that the Thames between Oxford and Burcot was virtually innavigable by the end of the reign of Elizabeth I. Hence the establishment of the Oxford-Burcot Commission by Acts of 1605 and 1624 to improve the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… It may have included the hamlet of Overy as well as Burcot, 1 about 1 miles north-west of Dorchester, and so have … covered an area of 2,263 acres. 2 For centuries, however, Burcot had a separate economic life, and was long recognized … the purposes of this article, therefore, the history of Burcot will not be included except incidentally. 3 The area …