[2] Legend associates Prescote with Saint Fremund, a Mercian prince held to have been martyred in the 9th century AD.

[2] Prescote comprised two manors that were held separately until 1417–1419, when John Danvers (died 1449) of Calthorpe, Oxfordshire, acquired both of them.

[2] In 1796, his descendant Sir Michael Danvers, 5th Baronet (1738–1776) died without a male heir and left Prescote to his son-in-law Augustus Richard Butler.

[2] In 1883, Baron Overstone died without a male heir and left his estates to his daughter, Harriet, Lady Wantage.

McDougall,[2] whose Midland Marts company opened a cattle stockyard in 1921 beside Banbury Merton Street railway station.