BUCKNELL, a parish in the hundred of PLOUGHLEY,
county of OXFORD, 2 miles (N. W.by,N.) from
Bicester, containing 235 inhabitants. The .living is a
rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford,
rated in the king's books at £13. 16.'0., and in the
patronage of the Warden and Fellows of New College,
Oxford. ' The church is dedicated to St. Peter: at a
short distance from it, near the verge of a coppice, are
the foundations of numerous houses that constituted
the village of Saxenton, the greater part of which was
destroyed by the Danes, about the year 912; the site,
for many generations, has been unoccupied by a single
habitation.