BODICOTT, a chapelry in Adderbury parish, Oxford; near the Oxford canal, the Cherwell river, and the Oxford and Rugby railway, 2 miles S of Banbury. It has a post office under Banbury. Acres, 1,680. Real property, £4,334. Pop., 626. Houses, 163. The property is much subdivided. Bodicott House and Bodicott Grange are chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £150.* Patron, New College, Oxford. The church is good; and there are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels and a national school. John Kersey, the mathematician, was a native.

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