Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for DUDCOTT, Dudcote, or Didcot

DUDCOTT, Dudcote, or Didcot, a parish in Wallingford district, Berks; on the Great Western railway, at the deflection of the branch to Oxford, 5½ miles W of Wallingford. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Wallingford. Acres, £1, 094. Real property, £2, 002. Pop., 349. Houses, 75. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £397. Patron, Brazenose College, Oxford. The church is chiefly perpendicular English, in good condition; and the churchyard contains a picturesque stone cross and some fine yew trees.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Didcot AP/CP       Wallingford RegD/PLU       Berkshire AncC
Place names: DIDCOT     |     DUDCOTE     |     DUDCOTT     |     DUDCOTT DUDCOTE OR DIDCOT
Place: Didcot

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