Woodmancote, Cirencester Explained

Official Name:Woodmancote
Country:England
Region:South West England
Static Image Name:Road passing through Woodmancote (geograph 4749480).jpg
Static Image Caption:Woodmancote
Os Grid Reference:SP0008
Coordinates:51.775°N -2°W
Post Town:CIRENCESTER
Postcode Area:GL
Postcode District:GL7
Dial Code:01285
Constituency Westminster:Cotswold
Civil Parish:North Cerney
Shire District:Cotswold
Shire County:Gloucestershire

Woodmancote is a Cotswolds village near Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England. The village lies just off the A435. The village is 0.2sqmi in area.

The hamlet is typically made up of Cotswold stone cottages, a single Mansion house and a mix of some more modern dwellings and is surrounded by farm land. Woodmancote has no pub, shop, church or other facilities, the nearest being Rendcomb or North Cerney.

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Woodmancote like this:

WOODMANCOTE, a tything in North Cerney parish, Gloucester; 4¼ miles NNW of Cirencester. Pop., 256.