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]
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]
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.