Pitchcott is a village and civil parish in the Aylesbury Vale district of Buckinghamshire, England.

A Roman road called Carter's Lane forms part of the parish's western boundary with Quainton.

[4][broken footnote] Pitchcott is a shrunken village: around the surviving settlement, to the south-east and in other directions, are medieval house platforms and traces of tracks.

[6] The parish also has good examples of ridge and furrow,[4][broken footnote] showing that in the Middle Ages some of the land now farmed as pasture used to be arable.

[2] A transition from arable farming to sheep pasture in previous centuries, aided by enclosure, may explain why Pitchcott village shrank.

[2] In 1540 this was merged with the Honour of Ewelme in Oxfordshire, and the last mention of Pitchcott's overlordship dates from 1550.

[2] The last-known record of the mesne lordship is from 1400,[2] three years before Edmund Stafford died.

His son, Sir Thomas Saunders (1665–1741) inherited the manor, although he resided at the other estate he possessed called Newland Park in Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire.

[11] Both Pitchcott and Newland Park were held by several more generations of the descendants of Sir Thomas Saunders until a cousin, Gov.

[2][12] This Thomas Saunders had been President of Madras for the British East India Company and had built a substantial fortune during his tenure there.

[2] In 1852 their representatives sold Pitchcott to Mayer Amschel de Rothschild, but in 1853 he exchanged it with Christ Church, Oxford for property at Mentmore.

[2] The eldest male line of the Saunders family emigrated to Guelph in what was then Upper Canada in the mid-19th century.

[16] The chancel was built in the first half of the 13th century, and its south wall retains its two original lancet windows.

[2] The work included inserting two north windows in the nave to match the 15th-century south ones, and building a new chancel arch.

[2] The second bell is inscribed "Sent Luke Apostel, 1590" and may have been cast by Robert III Newcombe and Bartholomew Atton of Buckingham.