Dinton, Buckinghamshire

Dinton, Buckinghamshire

Coordinates: 51°47′01″N 0°53′48″W / 51.7835°N 0.8967°W / 51.7835; -0.8967

Dinton
Dinton is located in Buckinghamshire
Dinton

 Dinton shown within Buckinghamshire
Population 861 (civil parish)[1]
OS grid reference SP7610
Parish Dinton
District Aylesbury Vale
Shire county Buckinghamshire
Region South East
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Police Thames Valley
Fire Buckinghamshire
Ambulance South Central
EU Parliament South East England
List of places: UK • England • Buckinghamshire

Dinton is a village in Buckinghamshire, England. It is in the very south of the Aylesbury Vale on the ancient turnpike leading from Aylesbury to Thame (although this road has since been diverted away from the village). Dinton with Ford and Upton is also a civil parish within Aylesbury Vale district.

The village name is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means 'Dunna's estate'. In the Domesday Book of 1086 it was listed as Danitone.

There was an ancient mansion house in this parish that belonged to the Mayne family for many years (they were lords of the manor in 1086). This has long since disappeared, but the groundworks of the ancient manor house still remain and are a goldmine of archaeological finds. There is also a ruined mock-fortified building, Dinton Castle also known as Dinton Folly, though this was constructed much later (in 1769) by Sir John Vanhattem. This octagonal folly has deteriorated over recent years, although it is a listed building., but has recently underdone some restoration work.

Next to the church at Dinton is Dinton Hall; this fine many gabled mansion altered at various periods during its long history, was until the last quarter of the 20th century the seat of the Currie family. Following the Curries' departure it was bought by a Mr. Smith. He carried out a program of restoration, and placed his own coat of arms above the mansion's portals.

A notable resident of Dinton in the 17th century was John Bigg, the Dinton Hermit, who lived in a cave in the village. He was involved in the execution of King Charles I on January 30, 1649 and was reputed to have been the actual executioner. As one of the regicides Simon Mayne lived at Dinton, and was after his death in imprisonment buried at Dinton in 1661, it is not beyond the realms of possibility that the executioner would have been given sanctuary and anonymity on one of the regicide's estates.

Within the parish border lay the hamlets of Westlington, Ford, Upton, Waldridge, Gibraltar and Aston Mullins.

There was also anciently a hamlet called Moreton in this parish, though today only the groundworks and ponds remain. This hamlet was wiped out sometime in the Sixteenth Century.

Cuddington and Dinton Church of England School is a mixed Church of England primary school. It is a voluntary aided school that has been formed from the merger of Cuddington and Dinton schools. It takes children from the age of four through to the age of eleven.The school now has just over one hundred pupils.

References

  1. ^ Neighbourhood Statistics 2001 Census

External links

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Buckinghamshire • County Council elections • District Council elections
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Towns
(Component
Areas and Hamlets)
Aylesbury (Bedgrove, Broughton, California, Elm Farm, Elmhurst, Haydon Hill, New Zealand, Prebendal Farm, Quarrendon, Queens Park, Southcourt, Turnfurlong, Walton, Walton Court) • Buckingham (Bourton, Buffler's Holt, Castle Fields, Mount Pleasant, Page Hill) • Wendover (Cobblers Hill, Concord, Dean, Hazeldean, Kings Ash, Little London, Lower Bacombe, Scrubwood, Smalldean, The Hale, Upper Bacombe, Wendover Dean, Wendover Marsh, World's End) • Winslow (Shipton, Shipton Brook)
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Other Civil Parishes
(Component Villages
and Hamlets)
Addington • Adstock • Akeley (Akeley, Stockholt) • Ashendon (Ashendon, Lower Pollicott, Upper Pollicott) • Aston Clinton (Aston Clinton, Chivery, Vaches) • Aston Abbotts • Aston Sandford • Barton Hartshorn • Beachampton • Biddlesden • Bierton with Broughton (Bierton, Broughton, Broughton Crossing, Burcott) • Boarstall (Boarstall, Honeyburge) • Brill (Brill, Little London) • Buckingham Park (Berryfields, Weedon Hill) • Buckland (Buckland, Buckland Wharf) • Calvert Green (Calvert) • Charndon • Chearsley • Cheddington (Cheddington, Cooks Wharf) • Chetwode • Chilton (Chilton, Easington) • Coldharbour (Fairford Leys) • Creslow • Cublington • Cuddington • Dinton-with-Ford and Upton (Aston Mullins, Dinton, Ford, Gibraltar, Upton, Waldridge, Westlington) • Dorton • Drayton Beauchamp • Drayton Parslow • Dunton • East Claydon (Botolph Claydon, East Claydon) • Edgcott • Edlesborough (Dagnall, Edlesborough, Northall, Ringshall) • Fleet Marston • Foscott • Gawcott with Lenborough (Gawcott, Lenborough) • Granborough (Granborough, Green End) • Great Brickhill • Great Horwood (Great Horwood, Singleborough) • Grendon Underwood • Haddenham (Haddenham, South End) • Halton • Hardwick • Hillesden • Hoggeston • Hogshaw (Fulbrook, Hogshaw) • Hulcott • Ickford • Ivinghoe (Greatgap, Horton, Ivinghoe, Ivinghoe Aston, Ringshall) • Kingsey • Kingswood (Kingswood, Tetchwick) • Leckhampstead • Lillingstone Dayrell with Luffield Abbey (Lillingstone Dayrell, Luffield Abbey) • Lillingstone Lovell • Little Horwood • Long Crendon • Ludgershall • Maids Moreton • Marsh Gibbon (Marsh Gibbon, Little Marsh, Summerstown) • Marsworth (Marsworth, Startop's End) • Mentmore (Crafton, Ledburn, Mentmore) • Middle Claydon (Middle Claydon, Verney Junction) • Mursley • Nash • Nether Winchendon • Newton Longville • North Marston • Oakley (Addingrove, Little London, Oakley) • Oving • Padbury • Pitchcott • Pitstone (Barley End, Pitstone, Pitstone Green, Pitstone Hill) • Poundon • Preston Bissett • Quainton (Quainton, Shipton Lee) • Quarrendon (Berryfields) • Radclive-cum-Chackmore (Radclive, Chackmore) • Shabbington • Shalstone • Slapton (Grove, Horton Wharf, Slapton) • Soulbury (Bragenham, Chelmscote, Hollingdon, Soulbury, Stockgrove) • Steeple Claydon • Stewkley (North End, Stewkley, Stewkley Dean) • Stoke Hammond • Stoke Mandeville • Stone with Bishopstone and Hartwell (Bishopstone, Hartwell, Lower Hartwell, Sedrup, Stone) • Stowe (Boycott, Dadford, Lamport, Stowe) • Swanbourne (Nearton End, Swanbourne) • Thornborough • Thornton • Tingewick • Turweston • Twyford • Upper Winchendon • Waddesdon (Eythrope, Waddesdon, Wormstone) • Water Stratford • Watermead • Weedon (East End, Weedon, Weedon Hill) • Westbury • Westcott • Weston Turville (Bye Green, Weston Turville) • Whaddon • Whitchurch • Wing (Ascott, Burcott, Littleworth, Wing) • Wingrave (Burston, Nup End, Rowsham, Wingrave) • Woodham • Worminghall • Wotton Underwood
Former Districts
and Boroughs
Former
Constituencies
List of Parliamentary constituencies in Buckinghamshire • List of places in Buckinghamshire • List of civil parishes in Buckinghamshire

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