Description
Bucknell, a parish in Oxfordshire, 2 1/2 miles NW of Bicester. It has a post office under Bicester, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1894; population, 233. Bucknell House, a fine country seat, is in this parish. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net yearly value, £180 with residence. Patron, New College, Oxford. The church is Early English, with a Norman tower, and has some ancient brasses. About a quarter of a mile east of the church are traces of an ancient Saxon village.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
