Wood Burcote is a hamlet located less than one mile south of
Towcester in
West Northamptonshire in the
English county of
Northamptonshire. It takes its name from a small wood above the village which overlooks the valley of the
River Tove
A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of wate ...
. The wood is carpeted with
bluebells and
ramsons
''Allium ursinum'', known as wild garlic, ramsons, cowleekes, cows's leek, cowleek, buckrams, broad-leaved garlic, wood garlic, bear leek, Eurasian wild garlic or bear's garlic, is a bulbous perennial flowering plant in the amaryllis family Amary ...
in the Spring, suggesting it is the remnant of an
ancient woodland.
Former resident
Richard Litcott (or Lidcott, Lydcot etc.) lived in Wood Burcote in the early years of the 17th Century. His wife was Judith, as was his daughter. The latter married Gideon Fisher, of Carleton, Bedfordshire, in 1640. Several of his sons attended Oxford University, and later the family had connections with Ealing, Middlesex. During the Civil War, he was at Sandown Castle, north of Deal, in Kent, and his wife may have died in Deal, in 1661
[National Archives; Chancery case:C 5/30/71; IGI burial record 29 Apr 1661]
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Hamlets in Northamptonshire
West Northamptonshire District
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