Coscote
{{Short description|Hamlet in Oxfordshire, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2015}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2015}}
{{infobox UK place
| country = England
| coordinates = {{coord|51.5909|-1.2571|display=inline,title}}
| official_name = Coscote
| population =
| static_image = Coscote Manor.jpg
| static_image_width = 240px
| static_image_caption = Coscote Manor
| civil_parish = East Hagbourne
| shire_district = South Oxfordshire
| shire_county = Oxfordshire
| region = South East England
| constituency_westminster = Wantage
| post_town = DIDCOT
| postcode_district = OX11
| postcode_area = OX
| dial_code = 01235
| os_grid_reference = SU515882
| website =
}}
Coscote is a hamlet in the civil parish of East Hagbourne, in the Berkshire Downs {{convert|1|mi|km}} south of Didcot. The hamlet was also previously referred to as Cokelscote.{{cite book| title = A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 3|editor= P.H. Ditchfield |editor2=William Page | url = http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43249| via = British History Online|chapter = Hagbourne}} Coscote is now in Oxfordshire, and in 1974 was transferred from Berkshire. Currently, the Church of England church St Andrew's, Hagbourne claims the hamlet as one of its parish communities.{{cite web| url = http://www.easthagbourne.net/today-indiv.php?id=418| website = East Haghbourne Community Website| title = St Andrew's Church| access-date = 20 September 2014}}
Coscote Manor and other historical features
Notably, the town contains the 17th-century building, Coscote Manor, which is a Grade II listed building, under the name "Coscote Manor and Yew Tree Famhouse and Attached Wall, East Hagbourne." The building was listed on 9 April 1952.{{cite web|url = http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-248642-coscote-manor-and-yew-tree-famhouse-and-| title = Coscote Manor and Yew Tree Famhouse and Attached Wall, East Hagbourne| website = British Listed Buildings| access-date = 20 September 2014}} The manor is a timber-framed 17th-century house with fretwork bargeboards and an Ipswich window.{{cite book |last=Pevsner |first=Nikolaus |author-link=Nikolaus Pevsner |series=The Buildings of England |title=Berkshire |year=1966 |publisher=Penguin Books |location=Harmondsworth |pages=132–133 }} The house and surrounding hamlet were described in the 1913 travel journal Quiet roads and sleepy villages by Allan Fae.{{cite book| publisher = London : E. Nash| title = Quiet roads and sleepy villages | first = Allan |last = Fae| date = 1913| via = Internet Archive| url = https://archive.org/details/quietroadssleepy00feaauoft|pages = [https://archive.org/details/quietroadssleepy00feaauoft/page/196 196]–7}} As of 1923, regional historians P.H. Ditchfield and William Page note that Coscote contained the base of one of three medieval crosses in Hagbourne.
Transport
Coscote is served by 6 buses a day Monday - Saturday, by the Abingdon Bus Company's Route 94, from West Hagbourne to Didcot via Blewbury.
Gallery
File:Coscote Manor - geograph.org.uk - 1288933.jpg|An alternative view of Coscote Manor
References
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Category:Hamlets in Oxfordshire