Dunsden Green

Coordinates: 51°29′32″N 0°56′14″W / 51.4923°N 0.9372°W / 51.4923; -0.9372

Dunsden Green
The village green at Dunsden
Dunsden Green  Dunsden Green shown within Oxfordshire
OS grid reference	SU7377
Parish	Eye & Dunsden
District	South Oxfordshire
Shire county	Oxfordshire
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Reading
Postcode district	RG4
Dialling code	0118
Police	Thames Valley
Fire	Oxfordshire
Ambulance	South Central
EU Parliament	South East England
UK Parliament	Henley
Website	Eye & Dunsden Parish Council
List of places: UK • England • Oxfordshire

Dunsden Green or Dunsden is a village in the civil parish of Eye & Dunsden in South Oxfordshire, about 3 miles (4.8 km) northeast of Reading, Berkshire. Before 1866, it was part of the Oxfordshire section of Sonning civil 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 from September 1911 to February 1913 when he served as a lay assistant to the parish priest, Rev. Herbert Wigan.^[3]

The village school was built in 1848. It is now the village hall.^[4]

In 2002 the Loddon Brewery was established in a converted 18th century brick and flint barn at Dunsden Green Farm.^[5]

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.^[6] The orchard will be beside the village green.

See also

• List of places in Oxfordshire

References

1. ^ Parish Churches of Shiplake, Dunsden and Harpsden
2. ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus; Sherwood, Jennifer (1974). The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire. Harmondsworth: Penguin. p. 590. ISBN 0 14 071045 0. 
3. ^ Wilfred Owen — The Vicarage
4. ^ Eye & Dunsden Parish Council: The Village Hall
5. ^ The Loddon Brewery
6. ^ Eye & Dunsden Community Orchard

Image gallery

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  Parish church of All Saints, Dunsden.

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  The green at Dunsden Green.

External links

Media related to Dunsden Green at Wikimedia Commons