Alvescot
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Key facts
- UK place.official_name
- Alvescot
- UK place.static_image_name
- Alvescot StPeter south.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- St Peter's parish church
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SP2704
- UK place.population
- 472
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011 Census)
- UK place.civil_parish
- Alvescot
- UK place.shire_district
- West Oxfordshire
- UK place.shire_county
- Oxfordshire
- UK place.region
- South East England
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Witney
- UK place.post_town
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Official name
- Alvescot
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- West Oxfordshire
- Population
- +472
- Area
- +768.61
- Shares border with
- Carterton
- Official website
- www.wospweb.com/site/ALVESCOT-PARISH-COUNCIL
- Image
- Alvescot StPeter south.jpg
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9 sectionsContents
- Archaeology
- Church and chapel
- Church of England
- Baptist
- Economic and social history
- Amenities
- References
- Sources and further reading
- External links
Alvescot is a village and civil parish about south of Carterton, Oxfordshire, England. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 472.
==Archaeology== A Neolithic stone hand axe was found at Alvescot. Petrological analysis in 1940 identified the stone as epidotised tuff from Stake Pass in the Lake District, to the north. Stone axes from the same source have been found at Kencot, Abingdon, Sutton Courtenay and Minster Lovell.