Dunsden Green
| Dunsden Green | |
|---|---|
 The village green at Dunsden | |
  Dunsden Green Location within Oxfordshire | |
| OS grid reference | SU7377 |
| Civil parish | |
| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Reading |
| Postcode district | RG4 |
| Dialling code | 0118 |
| Police | Thames Valley |
| Fire | Oxfordshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
| UK Parliament | |
| Website | Eye & Dunsden Parish Council |
Dunsden Green or Dunsden is a village in the civil parish of Eye & Dunsden in the South Oxfordshire ward of Sonning Common, about 3 miles (5 km) northeast of Reading, Berkshire. Until 1866 it was in the Oxfordshire part of Sonning parish.[citation needed]
History
The toponym means "valley of a man named Dyn(n)e". In 1086 the Domesday Book recorded it as Dunesdene, and a document of 1586 records it as Donsden Grene.[citation needed]
The Church of England parish church of All Saints[1] was designed by the architect John Turner and built in 1842.[2]
Nearby is the former vicarage. The future First World War poet Wilfred Owen lived here from September 1911 to February 1913 when he served as a lay assistant to the parish priest, Rev. Herbert Wigan.[3]
The Dunsden Owen Association has been formed to commemorate the poet's links with the area, and a smartphone app can be downloaded which provides an interactive guide to the sites with which he was connected. [4]
The village school was built in 1848. It is now the village hall.[5]
In 2002 the microbrewery Loddon Brewery was established in a converted 18th century brick and flint barn at Dunsden Green Farm.[6]
In November 2007 a new community orchard was established by the planting of a Blenheim Orange apple tree on the village green by Lord Phillimore, the main local landowner.[7] The orchard is beside the village green.
See also
References
- ^ Parish Churches of Shiplake, Dunsden and Harpsden
- ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus; Sherwood, Jennifer (1974). The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire. Harmondsworth: Penguin. p. 590. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.
- ^ Dunsden | The Wilfred Owen Association
- ^ | The Dunsden Owen Association
- ^ Eye & Dunsden Parish Council: The Village Hall
- ^ The Loddon Brewery Archived 12 January 2006 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Eye & Dunsden Community Orchard
Image gallery
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All Saints' parish church, Dunsden. -
The green at Dunsden Green.
External links
Media related to Dunsden Green at Wikimedia Commons
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