Description
Bodicote, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in the civil parish of Adderbury, Oxford, near the Oxford Canal and the Cherwell river, 2 miles S of Banbury, and 3 from Bloxham station on the G.W.R., with a post, money order, and telegraph office under Banbury. Acreage of township, 1299, of which 11 are water; population, 715. Bodicote House, Bodicott Grange, and Red House are the chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £270 with residence. Patron, New College, Oxford. The church is an ancient building of stone, and there are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels. Rhubarb and henbane for medicine are cultivated.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
