Balscott, or Balscote, Oxfordshire
Historical Description
Balscott, or Balscote, a chapelry in Wroxton parish, Oxford, on the verge of the county, 4½ miles WNW of Ban-"bury railway station. Post town, Wroxton, which is the money order and telegraph office. The name is a corruption of Beletscot, and was derived from Michael Belet, who founded Wroxton Priory. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Wroxton, in the diocese of Oxford. The church is Decorated English. The area is included in Wroxton.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Oxfordshire | |
| Civil parish | Wroxton | |
| Hundred | Bloxham | |
| Poor Law union | Banbury |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Oxfordshire Family History Society and Oxfordshire History Centre, have images of the Parish Registers for Oxfordshire online.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Balscott, or Balscote from the following:
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Oxfordshire is available online
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Oxfordshire newspapers online:
- Oxford Journal
- Banbury Advertiser
- Banbury Guardian
- Oxford University and City Herald
- Oxford Chronicle and Reading Gazette
- Faringdon Advertiser and Vale of the White Horse Gazette
- Oxford Times
- Banbury Beacon
- Ossett Observer
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitations of Oxfordshire, 1566, 1574 &1634 are available on the Heraldry page.