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| Edgcott | |
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Mar2006.jpg) Edgcott | |
  Edgcott Location within Buckinghamshire | |
| Population | 256 (2011 Census)[1] |
| OS grid reference | SP6722 |
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| Unitary authority | |
| Ceremonial county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Aylesbury |
| Postcode district | HP18 |
| Dialling code | 01296 |
| Police | Thames Valley |
| Fire | Buckinghamshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
| UK Parliament | |
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Edgcott is a village and a civil parish in Buckinghamshire district in the ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire, England. It is in the Aylesbury Vale, about eight miles east of Bicester.
The village name is derived from the Old English for "oak cottage". In the Domesday Book of 1086 it is recorded as Achecote, "æcen" (from which the word "acorn" is derived) being the Old English word for oak.
The manor of Edgcott was once owned by the physician and poet Sir Samuel Garth.
The village also has HM Prison Grendon located nearby.[2]
In 1807 Edgcott was described as:
The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. The church is old but good. There is an Independent chapel.[3]
- ^ Neighbourhood Statistics 2011 Census, Accessed 3 February 2013
- ^ "Grendon Prison information". www.justice.gov.uk. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
- ^ Wilson, John Marius (1870–72). Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales. Edinburgh: A. Fullerton & Co.