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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 15. 16. The manor-house is said to have been a monastery. Wilcote (St. Peter) WILCOTE ( St. Peter), a parish, in the poor-law union of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Wilcote Church Church The church of 'Wivelicota', granted to … 1151 by Ralph Basset, son of the justiciar, may have been Wilcote, although Ralph is not otherwise recorded as having … 95 The earliest incontrovertible evidence of a church at Wilcote lies in the fabric, part of which is of the later …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Wilcote Economic history Economic history A reference of 1270 to the fields of Wilcote 44 suggests that the parish was an independent … other in the south. The former bore the collective name Wilcote fields, and presumably comprised several fields once …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Wilcote Introduction Introduction Wilcote, comprising only 319 a. (128 ha.), was, until its … east of Witney, for long its market and social centre. 50 Wilcote was from the Middle Ages and possibly earlier a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Wilcote Local government Local government A small freeholding in Wilcote, recorded in 1279, owed suit of court at Cogges every three weeks. 89 Manorial courts were held at Wilcote in the Middle Ages, rarely recording more business …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Wilcote Manor Manor In 1086 WILCOTE, assessed at 1 hide, formed part of the extensive … holdings of Odo, bishop of Bayeux. 4 On Odo's fall Wilcote, among other manors, was granted c. 1100 to Manasser … forming part of his barony of Cogges. The overlordship of Wilcote followed the barony's descent until the latter's …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Wilcote Nonconformity Nonconformity Wilcote lay in an area notable for dissent in the later 17th … miller named Combes. 31 No other reference to Ambrose at Wilcote has been traced. If so large a congregation met …