Dunsden Green

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|official_name= Dunsden Green

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|civil_parish= Eye & Dunsden

|shire_district= South Oxfordshire

|shire_county= Oxfordshire

|region= South East England

|constituency_westminster= Henley

|post_town= Reading

|postcode_district= RG4

|postcode_area= RG

|dial_code= 0118

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|website= [http://www.eyedunsden.org/ Eye & Dunsden Parish Council]

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Dunsden Green or Dunsden is a village in the civil parish of Eye & Dunsden in the South Oxfordshire ward of Sonning Common, about {{convert|3|mi|0}} northeast of

Reading, Berkshire. Until 1866 it was in the Oxfordshire part of Sonning parish.{{Citation needed|date=July 2009}}

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|date=July 2009}} The Church of England parish church of All Saints[https://web.archive.org/web/20091027042038/http://geocities.com/ship_dun/ Parish Churches of Shiplake, Dunsden and Harpsden] was designed by the architect John Turner and built in 1842.{{Cite book | author=Pevsner, Nikolaus| authorlink=Nikolaus Pevsner |author2=Sherwood, Jennifer| title=The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire | date=1974 | publisher=Penguin | location=Harmondsworth | isbn=0-14-071045-0 | page=590}} 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.{{Cite web |url=http://www.wilfredowen.org.uk/virtual-tour/dunsden |title=Dunsden {{!}} The Wilfred Owen Association |access-date=14 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171114093429/http://www.wilfredowen.org.uk/virtual-tour/dunsden |archive-date=14 November 2017 |url-status=dead }} 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.[http://www.owenindunsden.org The Dunsden Owen Association]

The village school was built in 1848. It closed in December 1973{{Cite book | author=Law, Brian R.| title= Eye and Dunsden. Two centuries of change in an Oxfordshire parish | date=2001 | publisher=Brian R. Law | location=Dunsden | isbn=0-9540199-0-3 | page=130}} and is now the village hall.{{Cite web |url=http://www.eyedunsden.org/villagehall.html |title=Eye & Dunsden Parish Council: The Village Hall |access-date=13 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100207084504/http://www.eyedunsden.org/villagehall.html |archive-date=7 February 2010 |url-status=dead }} In 2002 the microbrewery Loddon Brewery was established in a converted 18th century brick and flint barn at Dunsden Green Farm.[http://www.loddonbrewery.co.uk/ The Loddon Brewery] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060112152504/http://www.loddonbrewery.co.uk/ |date=12 January 2006 }} 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.[http://orchard.blogspirit.com/ Eye & Dunsden Community Orchard] The orchard is beside the village green.

Notable people

Robert Darke (1876–1961), cricketer
Wilfred Owen (1893–1918), poet lived here from 1911 to 1913

Gallery

Dunsden Green church.jpg|All Saints' parish church, Dunsden.

Dunsden Green signpost, Oxfordshire.JPG|The green at Dunsden Green.

References

External links

Category:Sonning

Category:Villages in Oxfordshire

Category:South Oxfordshire District