Alvescot
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Alvescot is a village and civil parish about south of Carterton, Oxfordshire, England. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 472.
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- Locality
- West Oxfordshire
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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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
- Bampton
- UK place.postcode_district
- OX18
- UK place.postcode_area
- OX
- UK place.dial_code
- 01993
- UK place.website
- Alvescot Parish Council
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alvescot” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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