page_title: Edgcott
section_title: Population
hierarchical_section_title: Edgcott / Population
caption_attribution_description: English: Graph to show the occupation of residents in Edgcott as of 1831
context_page_description: Edgcott is a village and a civil parish in Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England. It is in the Aylesbury Vale, about eight miles east of Bicester.
  The village name is derived from the Old English for "oak cottage". In the Domesday Book of 1086 it is recorded as Achecote, "æcen" being the Old English word for oak.
  The manor of Edgcott was once owned by the physician and poet Sir Samuel Garth.
  The village also has HM Prison Grendon located nearby.
  In 1807 Edgcott was described as:
  The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. The church is old but good. There is an Independent chapel.
context_section_description: The parish had a population of 256 people according to the 2011 census
  Edgcott's population during the 1830s had a very small pool of job occupations, with the only noticeable job being an agricultural labourer. Obviously there are employers at this time who own the land and need manpower to work it, and according to the 'A Vision of Britain through Time', there were 4.☃☃ This model of industry present in Edgcott is predictable, due to the poor transport modes in that time. People couldn't travel very far to work so needed to work locally, therefore everyone who lived in Edgcott would most likely be working the land there.
  The following graph shows the number of people in their different age brackets who reside in Edgcott. The data used is from 2001 and shows a top heavy population, with the majority of the population being aged between 30 and 59. 141 people are in this bracket, which is approximately 55% of the population.
caption: Graph showing the occupations of the residents of Edgcott in 1831
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