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Topographical Dictionary of England, Lewis, 1831

Alvescot, Oxfordshire

ALVESCOTT, a parish in the hundred of BAMPTON, county of OXFORD, 5 miles (S.S.E.) from Burford, containing 357 inhabitants. The libing is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford, rated in the king's books at £8. 16. 8., and in the patronage of — Brown, Esq. Goddard Carter, Esq., in 1723, left a rent-charge of £10, directing one-half to be applied in educating poor children, and the remainder in apprenticing them.