Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for COTTESFORD

COTTESFORD, a parish in Bicester district, Oxford; near the boundary with Northampton, 3½ miles S of Brackley r. station, and 6 N of Bicester. Post town, Hethe, under Bicester. Acres, 1, 520. Real property, £2, 049. Pop., 269. Houses, 62. Cottesford House is the seat of the Turners. Part of the land is heath. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £344. Patron, Eton College. The church is old, and has a tower.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Cottisford CP/AP       Bicester RegD/PLU       Oxfordshire AncC
Place: Cottisford

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