BUSCOT, or BURWASCOT, a parish in the hundred of SHRIVENHAM, county of BERKS, 4 miles (N.W. by W.) .from Great Farringdon, containing 421 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Perks, and diocese of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £21. 2. 8., and in the patronage of Jeremy Baker, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Mary.