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"BUSCOT, (or Burwascot), a parish in the hundred of Shrivenham, in the county of Berks, 2 miles to the S.E. of Lechlade, in Gloucestershire, its post town. It is pleasantly situated on the banks of the river Thames, which is crossed at Buscot Wick by St. John's Bridge. The living is a the diocese of Oxford, value £457, in the patronage of Pryse Pryse, Esq. The church, a small ancient building, is dedicated to St. Mary, and has several monuments of the Lovedens, whose seat is Buscot Park. The mansion was built in 1783 by Edward Loveden, Esq., one of the chief promoters of the Thames and Severn canal, which terminates at Lechlade. The parochial charities produce about £35 a year. The village is a meet for the Old Berks hounds.
From The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland(1868). Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003.
Other descriptions can be found from other periods in various trade directories covering Berkshire from the early 19th century onwards from Berkshire FHS and from A Vision of Britain Through Time.
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In addition to those listed on the Berkshire home page, see the Research Wiki from Family Search (the Church of Latter-day Saints (Genealogical Society of Utah))
| St Mary, Buscot, Church of England |
| St Mary, Buscot, Church of England |
| Buscot, Baptist |
Further information about some of the churches can be found below:
- A Church Near You provides information about the present Church of England churches
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Buscot to another place.
- Buscot was in the hundred of Shrivenham
- Buscot House - see Vol 59, 2012 page 2 of the Berkshire Echo
- Search the Berkshire FHS library and shop and the BRO for their holdings
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SU229966 (Lat/Lon: 51.667714, -1.67028), Buscot which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
Buscot was in the Faringdon Union. For more information, see Poorhouses.