Description
Buscot, a village and a parish in Berks, on the river Thames, 4 1/2 miles WNW of Faringdon station on the G.W.R., and 2 1/2 SSE of Lechlade station. There is a post office under Lechlade, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage of parish, 2887 ; population, 423. Buscot House, built in 1780, and greatly altered and improved in 1890, stands in the midst of beautiful grounds extending into Eaton-Hastings parish. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net yearly value, £350 with residence. The church is old, dating from the 13th and 16th centuries. There is a Baptist chapel, erected in 1883, and some small charities.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
