Cottisford is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire, about 3.5 miles (5.6 km) south of Brackley in neighbouring Northamptonshire.

The parish includes the hamlet of Juniper Hill about 1 mile (1.6 km) northwest of Cottisford.

After d'Ivry's death his widow Adeline gave Cottisford to the Benedictine Abbey of Bec in Normandy.

In 1404 Henry IV was planning a military campaign in France so he granted Ogbourne Priory and all its manors jointly to his son John of Lancaster, the churchman Thomas Langley and the Prior of Ogbourne: William de Saint Vaast.

The younger Richard had spent 28 years working for the East India Company and became "a power in the village life" at Cottisford.

Bramston was a barrister at the Middle Temple in London; Sir James was Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.

[2] The buyer was the Reverend John Russell Greenhill, Rector of Fringford, who held the lease until his death in 1813.

The house has a solar and originally had a medieval hall, but in the 16th century an intermediate floor was inserted to create upstairs rooms.

Some time after 1266 Biddlesden quitclaimed the hide to the Abbey of Bec, which continued to let it separately from the main manor that it controlled through Ogbourne Priory.

Anthony Cope of Hanwell Castle owned the estate by 1606, in which year he also bought another 360 acres (150 ha) of land at Cottisford.

When Henry Howard, 2nd Earl of Effingham bought the Fermors' Tusmore estate in 1857 it included the land at Cottisford.

On the one hand they are a mixture of long flat slabs and tall narrow blocks, like Saxon quoins in many other buildings.

Low down in the east wall is a blocked arch very roughly made of uneven stones.

[6] Cottisford certainly had a parish church by 1081, when Hugh de Grandmesnil gave it, along with its tithe income and a hide of land, to the Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Evroul-sur-Ouche.

The Gothic Revival architect Charles Buckeridge restored the building in 1861[4] and the present font was added at the same time.

Attempts by successive lords of the manor to get Parliament to pass an inclosure act for Cottisford's common lands were defeated in 1761, 1777 and 1809.

She wrote the Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy of novels, in which she modelled the village of "Fordlow" on Cottisford.