Murcott, Oxfordshire

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Murcott
Oxfordshire

Murcott Mission Room
Location
Grid reference: SP584158
Location: 51°50’17"N, 1°9’11"W
Data
Post town: Kidlington
Postcode: OX5
Dialling code: 01865
Local Government
Council: Cherwell
Parliamentary
constituency:
Banbury
Website: Fencott and Murcott Council

Murcott is a village between the River Ray and Otmoor in Oxfordshire. It forms part of the civil parish of Fencott and Murcott, about four miles south of Bicester.

History

In 1542 the Crown granted almost all of the land at Murcott to the Dean and Chapter of Westminster Abbey.[1] They retained it until the end of the 19th century, when it passed to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners.[1]

Murcott Mission Room was built in 1895 to a plain Early English design by local Gothic Revival architect A. Mardon Mowbray.[2] The Mission Room is a Church of England chapel, part of the Benefice of the Ray Valley.[3]

The Nut Tree Inn public house is a mid-18th century thatched building.[1] It is a gastropub and in 2009 was awarded a Michelin Star.[4] Murcott used to have a second pub, the Marlake House, but this had closed by 1939.[1]

References

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