Murcott, Oxfordshire

DistrictShire countyRegionCountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townKidlingtonPostcode districtOX5Dialling code01865PoliceThames ValleyFireOxfordshireAmbulanceSouth Central UK ParliamentWebsiteFencott and Murcott Parish Council 51°50′17″N 1°09′11″W / 51.838°N 1.153°W / 51.838; -1.153

Murcott is a village between the River Ray and Otmoor in the civil parish of Fencott and Murcott, about 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Bicester in Oxfordshire, England.

History

In 1542 the Crown granted almost all of the land at Murcott to the Dean and Chapter of Westminster Abbey.^[1] They retained it until the end of the 19th century, when it passed to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners.^[1] Murcott Mission Room was built in 1895 to a plain Early English design by local Gothic Revival architect A. Mardon Mowbray.^[2] The Mission Room is a Church of England chapel, part of the Benefice of the Ray Valley.^[3] The Nut Tree Inn public house is a mid-18th century thatched building.^[1] It is a gastropub and in 2009 was awarded a Michelin Star.^[4] Murcott used to have a second pub, the Marlake House, but this had closed by 1939.^[1]

References

Sources

• Lobel, Mary D, ed. (1959). A History of the County of Oxford, Volume 6. Victoria County History. pp. 80–92.
• Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Oxfordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 713. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.

External links

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