Coscote Explained

Country:England
Coordinates:51.5909°N -1.2571°W
Official Name:Coscote
Static Image:Coscote Manor.jpg
Static Image Width:240px
Static Image Caption:Coscote Manor
Civil Parish:East Hagbourne
Shire District:South Oxfordshire
Shire County:Oxfordshire
Region:South East England
Constituency Westminster:Wantage
Post Town:DIDCOT
Postcode District:OX11
Postcode Area:OX
Dial Code:01235
Os Grid Reference:SU515882

Coscote is a hamlet in the civil parish of East Hagbourne, in the Berkshire Downs 1miles south of Didcot. The hamlet was also previously referred to as Cokelscote.[1] Coscote is now in Oxfordshire, and in 1974 was transferred from Berkshire. Currently, the Church of England church St Andrew's, Hagbourne claims the hamlet as one of its parish communities.[2]

Coscote Manor and other historical features

Notably, the town contains the 17th-century building, Coscote Manor, which is a Grade II listed building, under the name "Coscote Manor and Yew Tree Famhouse and Attached Wall, East Hagbourne." The building was listed on 9 April 1952.[3] The manor is a timber-framed 17th-century house with fretwork bargeboards and an Ipswich window.[4] The house and surrounding hamlet were described in the 1913 travel journal Quiet roads and sleepy villages by Allan Fae.[5] As of 1923, regional historians P.H. Ditchfield and William Page note that Coscote contained the base of one of three medieval crosses in Hagbourne.[1]

Transport

Coscote is served by 6 buses a day Monday - Saturday, by the Abingdon Bus Company's Route 94, from West Hagbourne to Didcot via Blewbury.

Notes and References

  1. Book: A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 3. P.H. Ditchfield . William Page . British History Online. Hagbourne.
  2. Web site: St Andrew's Church. East Haghbourne Community Website. 20 September 2014.
  3. Web site: Coscote Manor and Yew Tree Famhouse and Attached Wall, East Hagbourne. British Listed Buildings. 20 September 2014.
  4. Book: Pevsner, Nikolaus . Nikolaus Pevsner . . Berkshire . 1966 . . Harmondsworth . 132–133 .
  5. Book: Fae, Allan . London : E. Nash. Quiet roads and sleepy villages . 1913. Internet Archive. 196–7.