Alvescot is a village and civil parish about 1+1⁄2 miles south of Carterton, Oxfordshire, England. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 472. A Neolithic stone hand axe was found at Alvescot. Petrological analysis in 1940 identified the stone as epidotised tuff from Stake Pass in the Lake District, 230 miles to the north. Stone axes from the same s…Alvescot is a village and civil parish about 1+1⁄2 miles south of Carterton, Oxfordshire, England. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 472. A Neolithic stone hand axe was found at Alvescot. Petrological analysis in 1940 identified the stone as epidotised tuff from Stake Pass in the Lake District, 230 miles to the north. Stone axes from the same source have been found at Kencot, Abingdon, Sutton Courtenay and Minster Lovell.
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