Alvescot is a village and civil parish about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south of Carterton, Oxfordshire

Carterton, Oxfordshire

Carterton is the second largest town in West Oxfordshire and is about south of the A40 and south-west of Witney. The town is on the edge of the Thames Valley and on the edge of the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.-History:...

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History

The Church of England parish church

Church of England parish church

A parish church in the Church of England is the church which acts as the religious centre for the people within the smallest and most basic Church of England administrative region, known as a parish.-Parishes in England:...

 of Saint Peter

Saint Peter

Saint Peter or Simon Peter was an early Christian leader, who is featured prominently in the New Testament Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles. The son of John or of Jonah and from the village of Bethsaida in the province of Galilee, his brother Andrew was also an apostle...

 dates from the 13th century. The Perpendicular Gothic bell tower

Bell tower

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 has a peal

Change ringing

Change ringing is the art of ringing a set of tuned bells in a series of mathematical patterns called "changes". It differs from many other forms of campanology in that no attempt is made to produce a conventional melody....

 of six bells.

Alvescot used to have a Baptist

Baptist

Baptists comprise a group of Christian denominations and churches that subscribe to a doctrine that baptism should be performed only for professing believers , and that it must be done by immersion...

 congregation. Its former chapel is now a private house. There was also a Methodist

Methodist Church of Great Britain

The Methodist Church of Great Britain is the largest Wesleyan Methodist body in the United Kingdom, with congregations across Great Britain . It is the United Kingdom's fourth largest Christian denomination, with around 300,000 members and 6,000 churches...

 congregation, but its chapel was demolished in the 1990s.

In 1873 the East Gloucestershire Railway

Oxford, Witney and Fairford Railway

The Oxford, Witney and Fairford Railway was a single track railway line, long, in Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.-The Witney Railway:In 1849 a branch line was proposed from the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway at Wilcote near Charlbury via North Leigh to Witney, but the route was...

 between Fairford

Fairford railway station

Fairford railway station served the town of Fairford in Gloucestershire. It was the western terminus of the East Gloucestershire Railway line from . It had one platform, and a stone-built station building.-Background:...

 and Witney

Witney railway station

Witney railway station served the Oxfordshire town of Witney on the Oxford, Witney and Fairford Railway line. It consisted of two stone-built platforms, a station building, a signal box, and a shed in the form of a pagoda.-History:...

 was opened. It provided Alvescot railway station

Alvescot railway station

Alvescot railway station was a railway station between the Oxfordshire villages of Alvescot and Black Bourton. It was on the East Gloucestershire Railway that linked and .-History:...

 just outside the village on the road to Black Bourton

Black Bourton

Black Bourton is a village and civil parish about south of Carterton, Oxfordshire. The village is on Black Bourton Brook, a tributary of the River Thames.-Churches:...

. The Great Western Railway

Great Western Railway

The Great Western Railway was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament in 1835 and ran its first trains in 1838...

 took over the line in 1890 and British Rail

British Rail

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ways closed it in 1962.

Amenities

Alvescot has one public house

Public house

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, the Plough Inn.

Alvescot has a Church of England

Voluntary controlled school

A voluntary controlled school is a state-funded school in England, Wales and Northern Ireland in which a foundation or trust has some formal influence in the running of the school...

infants' school.