Longcot
Sign in to saveLongcot is a village and civil parish in the Vale of White Horse District. It was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire. The village is about south of Faringdon and about northeast of Shrivenham. The A420 road between Swindon and Oxford passes through the parish northwest of the village. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 617.
Key facts
- UK place.official_name
- Longcot
- UK place.static_image_name
- St Mary's, Longcot - geograph.org.uk - 704351.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- St Mary's parish church
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SU2790
- UK place.population
- 617
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011 Census)
- UK place.civil_parish
- Longcot
- UK place.shire_district
- Vale of White Horse
- UK place.shire_county
- Oxfordshire
- UK place.region
- South East England
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.post_town
- Faringdon
- UK place.postcode_district
- SN7
- UK place.postcode_area
- SN
- UK place.dial_code
- 01793
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Witney
- UK place.website
- Longcot Village
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Article
8 sectionsContents
- Geography
- Parish church
- Economic and social history
- Amenities
- Population
- References
- Sources and further reading
- External links
Longcot is a village and civil parish in the Vale of White Horse District. It was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire. The village is about south of Faringdon and about northeast of Shrivenham. The A420 road between Swindon and Oxford passes through the parish northwest of the village. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 617.
==Geography== Longcot Civil Parish covers . It is in a wide bend of the nascent River Ock, in typical low-lying vale landscape. The view to the south is dominated by the scarp of the Lambourn downs, including the Uffington White Horse.