WOOLVERCOTT, a parish in Woodstock district, Oxfordshire; on the Oxford and Birmingham railway, 2½ miles N by W of Oxford. It has a post-office under Oxford. Acres, 1,600. Real property, £3,856. Pop., 617. Houses, 119. The property is divided among a few. There is a paper mill, belonging to the University of Oxford. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £190.* Patron, Merton College, Oxford. The church, excepting the tower, was rebuilt in 1860. There are a parochial school, and charities £36.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))