Foscott


Foscott is a hamlet and is also a civil parish within Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England. At the 2011 Census the population of the hamlet was included in the civil parish of Thornton. In the 20th century a reservoir was built within Foscote, named Foxcote Reservoir. It is just to the north of Maids Moreton.
The name was Anglo Saxon in origin, meaning "Fox cottage".

Population of Foscott

In the earliest government census of 1801, there were 85 inhabitants in 17 families living in 17 houses recorded in Foscott.
Census YearPopulation of Foscott
180185
181191
1821119
1831107
1841119
185199
186196
187179
188172
189158
190146

Rectors of the Parish Church of St Leonard, Foscott

According to George Lipscomb's 1847 The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham there were 39 rectors of the Parish of Foscott, between 1220 and 1840. The church was converted into a private residence in the 1970s.
YearRector
1220Robert, the Chaplain
1253Eustace de Rochford
1277Thomas Fitz-Gilbert
1320William de Malesovers
1323Nicholas de Lyons
1332Thomas de St.Lys
1340Adam de la Mere
13--John Smith
1382John Drax, alias Cooper
1384William Ailthorp
1390John Barton
1393Robert de Pitchecote
1400John Gawcote
1437Walter Hopton
14--John Wattes
1457William Rees
1461Robert Ormesby
1478Robert Tymson
1503Henry Boleyn
1510James Walton, or Welton
1558Ralph Colys
1567John More
1574David Powell
1601Richard Evans
1608Robert Gray
1612James Stilton
1657Thomas Cheslin
1660Francis Hodson
1665William Walters
1672Samuel Pepys, A.M.
1703Richard Major, A.B.
1741Thomas Price, B.C.L.
1769William Cleaver, A.M.
1773William Cleaver, Junior, A.M.
1780William Cleaver, A.M.
1784Joseph Smith, A.M.
1791Honourable Archibald Hamilton Cathcart, A.M.
1797Robert Holt, A.M.
1820Wolley Leigh Bennet, A.M.
1840William Fletcher, A.M.