Longcot

Longcot is a township of Shrivenham, and was with Fernham township formed into an ecclesiastical parish in 1846, pleasantly situated in the Vale of White Horse, 4 miles west-south-west from Faringdon, 10 north-west from Wantage and 3½ miles west-by-north from Uffington station on the Great Western railway, in the Northern division of the county, hundred of Shrivenham, petty sessional division, union and county court district of Faringdon, rural deanery of the Vale of White Horse, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. There is a branch of the Wilts and Berks canal to a wharf near the village, and a small tributary of the river Ock, rising in Little Coxwell, bounds the parish on the south and west.