Balscote
Balscote or Balscott is a village in the civil parish of Wroxton, Oxfordshire, about 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Banbury.
Balscote or Balscott is a village in the civil parish of Wroxton, Oxfordshire, about 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Banbury. The Domesday Book of 1086 records the place-name as Berescote. Curia regis rolls from 1204 and 1208 record it as Belescot. An entry in the Book of Fees for 1242 records it as Balescot. Its origin is Old English, meaning the cottage, house or manor of a man called Bælli.
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Worth seeing in and around Balscote
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Wroxton Abbey
Wroxton Abbey is a Jacobean house in Oxfordshire, with a 1727 garden partly converted to the serpentine style between 1731 and 1751. It is 2.5 miles west of Banbury, off the A422 road in Wroxton.
2.4 km · Grade I listed manor house in Cherwell, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to Balscote
- Airports
- Birmingham (BHX), 47 km · London Luton (LTN), 76 km · East Midlands (EMA), 84 km
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Balscote55 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · £7–10
- London → Balscote110 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · £12–16
- Luton, Luton → Balscote73 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · £8–11
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No local-transport research exists yet for Balscote
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Balscote. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Balscote
Balscote is 37 km from Coventry, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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