Kencot

Also known as Kencot, Oxfordshire, Kencot, Oxon

Kencot is a village and civil parish about south-west of Carterton in West Oxfordshire. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 101.

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Place details

Locality: West Oxfordshire
Region: England
Country: United Kingdom
Population: 472

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Key facts

UK place.official_name: Kencot
UK place.static_image_name: Kencot, St. George's Church - geograph.org.uk - 381300.jpg
UK place.static_image_caption: St. George's parish church
UK place.os_grid_reference: SP253048
UK place.population: 101
UK place.population_ref: (2011 Census)
UK place.civil_parish: Kencot
UK place.shire_district: West Oxfordshire
UK place.shire_county: Oxfordshire
UK place.region: South East England
UK place.country: England
UK place.post_town: Lechlade
UK place.postcode_district: GL7
UK place.postcode_area: GL
UK place.dial_code: 01367
UK place.constituency_westminster: Witney

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Wikidata facts

Population: 101
Image: Kencot, St. George's Church - geograph.org.uk - 381300.jpg
Dialing code: 01367

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Commons category: Kencot
postal code: GL7
OS grid reference: SP2504

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Archaeology
Parish church
Economic and social history
RAF Broadwell
References
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Kencot is a village and civil parish about south-west of Carterton in West Oxfordshire. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 101.

==Archaeology== A Neolithic stone hand axe was found at Kencot. Petrological analysis in 1940 identified the stone as epidotised tuff from Stake Pass in the Lake District, to the north. Stone axes from the same source have been found at Alvescot, Abingdon, Sutton Courtenay and Minster Lovell.