Foscott

Foscott
Buckinghamshire
Location
Grid reference:	SP715358
Location:	52°-0’52"N, -0°56’52"W
Data
Population:	31  (Mid-2010 (est.))
Post town:	Buckingham
Postcode:	MK18
Dialling code:	01280
Local Government
Council:	Buckinghamshire
Parliamentary constituency:	Buckingham

Foscott (also called Foxcote and Foscote) is a hamlet and is also a parish in the Buckingham Hundred of Buckinghamshire. At the 2011 Census the population of the hamlet was included in the civil parish of Thornton. In the 20th century a reservoir was built within Foscote, named 'Foxcote Reservoir'. It is just to the north of Maids Moreton.

The name is Anglo-Saxon in origin, meaning "Fox cottage".

In the earliest government census of 1801, there were 85 inhabitants in 17 families living in 17 houses recorded in Foscott.

References

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