Foscott, Buckinghamshire
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Foscott is a hamlet
Hamlet (place)
A hamlet is usually a rural settlement which is too small to be considered a village, though sometimes the word is used for a different sort of community. Historically, when a hamlet became large enough to justify building a church, it was then classified as a village...

  and is also a civil parish within Aylesbury Vale
Aylesbury Vale
The Aylesbury Vale is a large area of flat land mostly in Buckinghamshire, England. Its boundary is marked by Milton Keynes to the north, Leighton Buzzard and the Chiltern Hills to the east and south, Thame to the south and Bicester and Brackley to the west.The vale is named after Aylesbury, the...

 district in Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan home county in South East England. The county town is Aylesbury, the largest town in the ceremonial county is Milton Keynes and largest town in the non-metropolitan county is High Wycombe....

, England
England
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. In the Twentieth century a reservoir was built within Foscote, named Foxcote Reservoir. It is just to the north of Maids Moreton
Maids Moreton
Maids Moreton is a village and civil parish in the Aylesbury Vale district of northern Buckinghamshire, England. The village is about north of Buckingham. The village is contiguous with the Buckingham urban area and is thus often considered as a suburb....

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The name was Anglo Saxon
Old English language
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 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 Year Population of Foscott
1801 85
1811 91
1821 119
1831 107
1841 119
1851 99
1861 96
1871 79
1881 72
1891 58
1901 46

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.
Year Rector
1220 Robert, the Chaplain
1253 Eustace de Rochford
1277 Thomas Fitz-Gilbert
1320 William de Malesovers
1323 Nicholas de Lyons
1332 Thomas de St.Lys
1340 Adam de la Mere
13-- John Smith
1382 John Drax, alias Cooper
1384 William Ailthorp
1390 John Barton
1393 Robert de Pitchecote
1400 John Gawcote
1437 Walter Hopton
14-- John Wattes
1457 William Rees
1461 Robert Ormesby
1478 Robert Tymson
1503 Henry Boleyn
1510 James Walton, or Welton
1558 Ralph Colys
1567 John More
1574 David Powell
1601 Richard Evans
1608 Robert Gray
1612 James Stilton
1657 Thomas Cheslin
1660 Francis Hodson
1665 William Walters
1672 Samuel Pepys, A.M.
1703 Richard Major, A.B.
1741 Thomas Price, B.C.L.
1769 William Cleaver, A.M.
1773 William Cleaver, Junior, A.M.
1780 William Cleaver, A.M.
1784 Joseph Smith, A.M.
1791 Honourable Archibald Hamilton Cathcart, A.M.
1797 Robert Holt, A.M.
1820 Wolley Leigh Bennet, A.M.
1840 William Fletcher, A.M.
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