Coordinates: 51°52′40″N 0°52′24″W / 51.877679°N 0.873308°W / 51.877679; -0.873308

Pitchcott
Pitchcott  Pitchcott shown within Buckinghamshire
Population	40 (est)[1]
OS grid reference	SP775205
Parish	Pitchcott
District	Aylesbury Vale
Shire county	Buckinghamshire
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	AYLESBURY
Postcode district	HP22
Dialling code	01296
Police	Thames Valley
Fire	Buckinghamshire
Ambulance	South Central
EU Parliament	South East England
UK Parliament	Aylesbury
List of places: UK • England • Buckinghamshire

Pitchcott is a village and also a civil parish within Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located about two and a half miles north east of Waddesdon, and four miles south of Winslow.

Pitchcott was described in 1806 in Magna Britannia as follows:

PITCHCOTE, in the hundred of Ashendon and deanery of Waddesdon, lies about seven miles [11 km] north-west of Aylesbury. The manor was in the family of Vernon as early as the year 1377, and continued to be their property in 1557. It was anciently held under the Bohuns, earls of Hereford. In 1603 it was purchased of Sir Walter Pye by an ancestor of Thomas Saunders esq. who is the present proprietor, and patron of the rectory.

The village name is Anglo-Saxon in origin, and means 'cottage where pitch is stored'. In manorial rolls of 1176, the village is recorded as Pichecote.

The parish church dedicated to Saint Giles has been deconsecrated and converted to a private house, although the churchyard is still in use. Pitchcott is joined with nearby Oving to form the ecclesiastical parish of "Oving with Pitchcott", which is served by All Saints church in Oving.

Pitchcott today is a small parish of only 1000 acres (4 km²); this includes approx. 32 acres (130,000 m²) of arable land, the remainder being grassland. There are a few new barn conversions that were built in 2007.

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