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Coordinates: 52°08′20″N 1°19′48″W / 52.139°N 1.330°W
Clattercote 
Clattercote
Clattercote shown within OxfordshireOS grid reference SP4549 Parish Claydon with Clattercot District Cherwell Shire county Oxfordshire Region South East Country England Sovereign state United Kingdom Post town Banbury Postcode district OX17 Dialling code 01295 Police Thames Valley Fire Oxfordshire Ambulance South Central EU Parliament South East England UK Parliament Banbury Website Claydon with Clattercote Parish Council List of places: UK • England • Oxfordshire Clattercote or Clattercot is a hamlet in Claydon with Clattercot civil parish, just over 5.5 miles (8.9 km) north of Banbury in Oxfordshire.
History
In the 12th century Robert de Chesney, Bishop of Lincoln granted land at Clattercote to the Gilbertine Order, on which they founded a small priory dedicated to Saint Leonard.[1] The priory was dissolved in 1538 in the Dissolution of the Monasteries.[1] In 1551 King Henry VIII granted the former priory and its lands to Christ Church, Oxford. The college was still the freeholder in 1969.[1]
The Priory seems to have had a leper's pool in which leprous inmates were bathed. Remains of a paved walk around the former pool have been discovered.[1] By the 18th century the leper's pool was known as the "great fish pond".[1]
The priory was extensively rebuilt as a moated farmhouse, Priory Farm.[1] The eastern range of the farmhouse includes parts of the priory dating from late in the 13th or early in the 14th century. By 1614 the remainder of the priory had been demolished and replaced with a large L-shaped house.[1] The central wing of this house survives but by 1717 the west wing had been demolished.[1] The present west wing had been built in its place by 1729.[1]
In 1777 the Oxford Canal was being extended southwards past Clattercote from Fenny Compton in Warwickshire to Cropredy in Oxfordshire,[2] and the canal company enlarged the great fish pond to form Clattercote Reservoir to feed the canal.[1]In 1787 the company enlarged the reservoir to its present area of 21 acres (8.5 ha).[1][2] There is a Clattercote Wharf on the canal about 0.5 miles (800 m) east of Priory Farm.
In 1852 the Great Western Railway built its Oxford and Rugby Railway from Oxford to Fenny Compton past Clattercote, passing just west of Priory Farm. Clattercote's nearest station was 2 miles (3.2 km) to the south at Cropredy, until British Railways closed it in 1956.
In 1932 Clattercote and the neighbouring village of Claydon 0.5 miles (800 m) to the north were incorporated into the new Claydon with Clattercot civil parish.[1]
Sources
- Compton, Hugh J. (1976). The Oxford Canal. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0 7153 7238 6.
- Crosley, Alan (ed.); Christina Colvin, Janet Cooper, N.H. Cooper, P.D.A. Harvey, Marjory Hollings, Judith Hook, Mary Jessup, Mary D. Lobel, J.F.A. Mason, B.S. Trinder, Hilary Turner (1972). Victoria County History: A History of the County of Oxford, Volume 10. pp. 194–197.
- Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire. Harmondsworth: Penguin. pp. 547–548. ISBN 0 14 071045 0.
References
Towns 
Large Villages Adderbury • Ambrosden • Arncott (Upper Arncott) • Bloxham • Bodicote • Caversfield • Deddington (Clifton, Hempton) • Hook Norton • Kidlington • Launton • Upper Heyford • YarntonOther Civil
Parishes
(Component
Villages
and Hamlets)Ardley with Fewcott (Ardley, Fewcott) • Barford St. John and St. Michael (Barford St. Michael, Barford St. John) • Begbroke • Blackthorn • Bletchingdon (Enslow) • Bourton (Great Bourton, Little Bourton) • Broughton • Bucknell • Charlton-on-Otmoor • Chesterton (Little Chesterton) • Claydon with Clattercot (Claydon, Clattercote) • Cottisford (Juniper Hill) • Cropredy • Drayton • Duns Tew • Epwell • Fencott and Murcott (Fencott, Murcott) • Finmere • Fringford • Fritwell • Godington • Gosford and Water Eaton (Gosford, Water Eaton) • Hampton Gay and Poyle (Hampton Gay, Hampton Poyle) • Hanwell • Hardwick with Tusmore (Hardwick, Tusmore) • Hethe (Willaston) • Horley • Hornton • Horton-cum-Studley • Islip • Kirtlington (Northbrook) • Lower Heyford (Caulcott) • Merton • Middle Aston • Middleton Stoney • Milcombe • Milton • Mixbury • Mollington • Newton Purcell with Shelswell (Newton Purcell, Shelswell) • Noke • North Aston • North Newington • Oddington • Piddington • Prescote • Shenington with Alkerton (Shenington, Alkerton) • Shipton-on-Cherwell and Thrupp (Shipton-on-Cherwell, Thrupp) • Shutford • Sibford Ferris • Sibford Gower (Burdrop) • Somerton • Souldern • South Newington • Steeple Aston • Stoke Lyne (Bainton) • Stratton Audley • Swalcliffe • Tadmarton • Wardington (Lower Wardington, Upper Wardington) • Wendlebury • Weston-on-the-Green • Wigginton • Wroxton (Balscote)Former Districts
and BoroughsMunicipal Borough of Banbury • Banbury Rural District • Bicester Urban District • Ploughley Rural District • Bicester Rural DistrictFormer
ConstituenciesCategories:- Oxfordshire geography stubs
- Hamlets in Oxfordshire
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