Description
Cogges or Coggs, a parish in Oxfordshire, 1 mile E of Witney, with a station on the G.W.R. Post, money order, and telegraph office, Witney. Acreage, 2285; population, 782. A black priory, a cell to Fescamp Abbey in Normandy, was founded here about 1100 by one of the Arsics. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; gross yearly value, £140 with residence. The church is an edifice of the 14th century. Some portions of it are Late Norman. It was built by the Greys, and contains a curious altar-tomb with two recumbent figures. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
