Murcott, Oxfordshire

Murcott
Murcott Location within Oxfordshire
OS grid reference	SP584158
Civil parish	Fencott and Murcott
District	Cherwell
Shire county	Oxfordshire
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Kidlington
Postcode district	OX5
Dialling code	01865
Police	Thames Valley
Fire	Oxfordshire
Ambulance	South Central
UK Parliament	Banbury
Website	Fencott and Murcott Parish Council

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

1. Lobel 1959, pp. 80–92.
2. Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 713.
3. A Church Near You webpage for Murcott Mission Hall
4. The Nut Tree Inn

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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