Edgcott

infobox UK place
country = England
latitude= 51.8963
longitude= -1.0171
population= 255 [ [http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=7&b=792036&c=edgcott&d=16&e=15&g=424224&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1216323588071&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779 Neighbourhood Statistics 2001 Census] ]
official_name= Edgcott
shire_district= Aylesbury Vale
shire_county = Buckinghamshire
region= South East England
static_

static_image_caption = Edgcott
constituency_westminster= Buckingham
post_town= AYLESBURY
postcode_district = HP18
postcode_area= HP
dial_code= 01296
os_grid_reference= SP677225

Edgcott is a village and is also a civil parish within Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England. It is in the Aylesbury Vale, about eight miles east of Bicester.

The village name is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means 'oak cottage'. In the Domesday Book of 1086 it was recorded as "Achecote", "æcen" (from which we get the word 'acorn') being the Anglo Saxon word for 'oak'.

The manor of Edgcott was once owned by the physician and poet Sir Samuel Garth.

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