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 closed in December 1973[5] and is now the village hall.[6] In 2002 the microbrewery Loddon Brewery was established in a converted 18th century brick and flint barn at Dunsden Green Farm.[7] 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.[8] 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
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All Saints' parish church, Dunsden. -
The green at Dunsden 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". Archived from the original on 14 November 2017. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
- ^ The Dunsden Owen Association
- ^ Law, Brian R. (2001). Eye and Dunsden. Two centuries of change in an Oxfordshire parish. Dunsden: Brian R. Law. p. 130. ISBN 0-9540199-0-3.
- ^ "Eye & Dunsden Parish Council: The Village Hall". Archived from the original on 7 February 2010. Retrieved 13 July 2009.
- ^ The Loddon Brewery Archived 12 January 2006 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Eye & Dunsden Community Orchard
External links
Media related to Dunsden Green at Wikimedia Commons
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