Burcot nr. Dorchester

INFORMATION

FontID: 21537BUR
Church/Chapel: No Parish Church
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the A415, 3 km NW of Dorchester
Historical Region: Hundred of Dorchester
No entry for this Burcot found in the Domesday survey. The Victoria County History (Oxon, vol. 7, 1962) notes: "No trace of a church or chapel at Burcot has been found either in the medieval or modern period before 1869, when a chapel-of-ease was built. According to local tradition there was a medieval church at Burcot, but excavations of 1857 in 'Church Field', on the north of the road to Dorchester between Clifton and Burcot revealed no traces of it [...] in the 18th-century Vestry minutes refer to the 'parish of Burcot', and Skelton in the early 19th century described it as a parish without a church". The 1869 chapel was later used as school and later still became a prvate dwelling.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 625469 5724782

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2017-10-30 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.