Buscot is an Ancient Parish in the county of Berkshire.
Parish church: St. Mary
Parish registers begin: 1676
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist
Parishes adjacent to Buscot
- Inglesham, Wiltshire
- Eaton Hastings
- Highworth with Sevenhampton, Wiltshire
- Coleshill
- Great Coxwell
- Lechlade, Gloucestershire
Historical Descriptions
The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851
Buscot, a parish in the hund. of Shrivenham, union of Farringdon, county of Berks; 4 miles north-west by west of Great Farringdon; on the river Thames or Isis. Living, a rectory, formerly in the archd. of Berks and dio. of Salisbury, now in the dio. of Oxford; rated at £21 2s. 8½d.; gross income £510. Patron, in 1835, P. Pryse, Esq. Charities connected with the parish produce £37 4s. per annum. This place was anciently called Burwardscot. Pop, in 1801, 409; in 1831, 416. Houses 84, Acres 2,910. A. P. £5,186. Poor rates, in 1837, £237.
Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851
Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850
Buscot, 3 miles N.W. Farringdon. P. 505.
Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.
Directories
Buscot Kellys Berkshire Directory 1869
Buscot is a village and parish, in the hundred of Shrivenham, union and county court district of Faringdon, rural deanery of the Vale of White Horse, archdeaconry of Berks, and diocese of Oxford, pleasantly situated on the banks of the Thames, about 4 miles south-west from Faringdon, and 2 south-east from Lechlade. The church of St. Mary is a very old structure, with a tower at the west end: the interior is plain, and has numerous mural tablets: it was new seated and repaired at the expense of the late rector. The present register dates from about the year 1700, those of an earlier date having been destroyed. The living is a rectory, annual value £535, with residence and 64 acres of glebe, in the gift of Robert Campbell, Esq., and held by the Rev. Frederick Ackers Dawson, M.A., of Brasenose College, Oxford. There is a charity, of the annual value of £35, accruing from the sum of £1,166 13s. 4d. in the Three per Cents., left by Mrs. Nash, of Maidenhead, at the request of her late husband, formerly a sugar refiner of London, which interest is to be appropriated by the churchwardens and overseers for the yearly purchase of coats for 20 poor men, and gowns and petticoats for 20 poor women, residing in the parish; there is an additional annual charity for the purchase of four coats. Buscot House, the seat of Robert Campbell, Esq., J.P., was built by Edward Loveden Loveden, Esq., about the year 1780: it is a stone mansion, surrounded by gardens, skirted by an extensive deer park, and in the midst of a rich woodland country. Robert Campbell, Esq., is lord of the manor and the chief owner and occupier of the soil. The soil is various, mostly strong clay; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats, turnips, and clover. The population in 1861 was 467; the parish contains 2,846 acres.
Parish Clerk, John Giles.
Letters arrive through Lechlade at 8.30 a.m.; dispatched at 6 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Faringdon
National School, William Hopkins, master; Mrs. Mary Hopkins, mistress
Conveyance. — Coach passes through from Fairford to Faringdon Road railway station, daily
Carriers.—
Kent’s vans, from Fairford, pass through on their way to Faringdon Road station every other day, returning on the intermediate one
Browne’s van, from Faringdon to Cirencester, passes throngh every monday, returning to Faringdon same evening
Campbell Robert, esq. J.P. Buscot house
Dawson Rev. Frederick Ackers, M.A. [rector], Rectory
COMMERCIAL
Catton James, farm bailiff to Robert Campbell, esq
Greenaway Henry, Campbell Arms
Grubb James, blacksmith
Lewis Thomas, farmer
Reynolds Thomas, shopkeeper
Simmons Robert, cowkeeper
Source: Post Office Directory of Northamptonshire, Huntingdonshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and Oxfordshire; E. R. Kelly; Kelly & Co., London. 1869.
Parish Records
Marriages at Buscot 1676-1812
Marriages at Buscot 1676-1812 – UK Genealogy Archives
Buscot Marriages 1676-1812 – archive.org
Berkshire Archives & Family History Groups
Berkshire Family History Society
Berkshire
England, Berkshire, Reading, Cemetery Records, 1843-1959
Wellington College Register 1859-1905
Abingdon Union Workhouse Census 1881
Bradfield Union Workhouse 1881
Easthampstead Union Workhouse 1881
Great Faringdon Union Workhouse 1881
Hungerford Union Workhouse 1881
Wallingford Union Workhouse 1881
Records for England
Births and Baptism Records
England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
Great Britain, Births and Baptisms, 1571-1977
England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008
United Kingdom, Maritime Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1787-1933
Marriage Records
Great Britain Marriages, 1797-1988
England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005
United Kingdom, Maritime Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1787-1933
Death Records
England Death Records, 1998-2015
England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991
Great Britain Deaths and Burials, 1778-1988
England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007
United Kingdom, Maritime Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1787-1933
England and Wales, National Index of Wills and Administrations, 1858-1957
England and Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1640-1660
Non-Conformist Records
England and Wales Non-Conformist Record Indexes (RG4-8), 1588-1977
Census
England and Wales Census, 1841
England and Wales Census, 1851
England and Wales Census, 1861
England and Wales Census, 1871
England and Wales Census, 1881
England and Wales Census, 1891
England and Wales Census, 1901
England and Wales Census, 1911
Occupations
United Kingdom, Merchant Navy Seamen Records, 1835-1941
War and Conflict
Great Britain, War Office Registers, 1772-1935
United Kingdom, Chelsea Pensioners’ Service Records, 1760-1913
United Kingdom, Royal Hospital Chelsea: Discharge Documents of Pensioners 1760-1887 (WO 122)
United Kingdom, Maritime Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1787-1933
United Kingdom, Militia Service Records, 1806-1915
United Kingdom, World War I Service Records, 1914-1920
United Kingdom, World War I Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps Records, 1917-1920
Newspaper Archives
British Newspaper Archive, Family Notices
British Newspaper Archives, Obituaries
Administration
- County: Berkshire
- Civil Registration District: Faringdon
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Berkshire
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Oxford, Pre-1836 – Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Abingdon
- Poor Law Union: Faringdon
- Hundred: Shrivenham
- Province: Canterbury