Prescote
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Prescote is a hamlet and civil parish about north of Banbury in Oxfordshire. Its boundaries are the River Cherwell in the southeast, a tributary of the Cherwell called Highfurlong Brook in the west, and Oxfordshire's boundary with Northamptonshire in the northeast.
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Vinony's link graph records 124 inbound references to Prescote, and connects out to Wardington, Kirtlington and England.
The entry is geolocated on the map, across 2 mapped points.
It is catalogued under topics including Civil parishes in Oxfordshire and Hamlets in Oxfordshire.
Vinony links it to 8 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Cherwell
- Population
- 8
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Shares border with
- Cropredy
- Image
- Bridleway, Prescote - geograph.org.uk - 662737.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01295
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- postal code
- OX17
- OS grid reference
- SP4746
- Commons category
- Prescote
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Prescote is a hamlet and civil parish about north of Banbury in Oxfordshire. Its boundaries are the River Cherwell in the southeast, a tributary of the Cherwell called Highfurlong Brook in the west, and Oxfordshire's boundary with Northamptonshire in the northeast.
==History== Prescote's toponym probably means "priest's cottage", referring to a cottage either owned by a priest or more likely inhabited by one. Legend associates Prescote with Saint Fremund, a Mercian prince held to have been martyred in the 9th century AD.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Prescote” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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2 mapped locations
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