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.