Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BODICOTT

BODICOTT, a chapelry in Adderbury parish, Oxford; near the Oxford canal, the Cherwell river, and the Oxford and Rugby railway, 2 miles S of Banbury. It has a post office under Banbury. Acres, 1,680. Real property, £4,334. Pop., 626. Houses, 163. The property is much subdivided. Bodicott House and Bodicott Grange are chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £150.* Patron, New College, Oxford. The church is good; and there are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels and a national school. John Kersey, the mathematician, was a native.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Adderbury CP/AP       Oxfordshire AncC
Place: Bodicote

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