Great Coxwell is a village and civil parish 2 miles (3 km) southwest of Faringdon[1] in the Vale of White Horse, England.

Part of the parish's western boundary is formed by a brook that joins that stream.

The parish's highest point is Badbury Hill (see below), which is just over 520 feet (160 m) high and is about 1 mile (1.6 km) northwest of the village.

The lowest point is just over 279 feet (85 m) above sea level, at the southwest corner of the parish.

The Domesday Book records that King Harold held the manor before the Norman Conquest of England.

Great Coxwell was a large manor, which the Domesday Book of 1086 recorded as 20 hides.

The abbey retained the manors until 1538, when it was forced to surrender all its properties to the Crown in the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

[7] In 1540 the Crown sold the manor of Great Coxwell to a local landholder, William Morys (or Morris).

In 1580 the Mass was secretly celebrated at Court House Farm in Great Coxwell.

In 1581 Francis Morris, grandson of William Morys, was jailed in the Fleet Prison in London for sheltering the Jesuit priest Edmund Campion.

On the northern edge of the village is a Medieval tithe barn that was built about 1292 for Beaulieu Abbey to store the crop of its monastic grange.