Dunsden Green

Dunsden Green (also known as Dunsden) is a village in the English county of Oxfordshire.

The village is part of the civil parish of Eye & Dunsden, with the villages of Sonning Eye and Playhatch, at the very southernmost tip of Oxfordshire, between the towns of Reading and Henley-on-Thames. Before 1866, it formed part of the Oxfordshire section of Sonning civil parish.

The place name is recorded in Domesday book of 1086 as 'Dunesdene', or 'valley of a man named Dyn(n)e'. It was known as 'Donsden Grene' from 1586.

All Saints Church (built 1842, architect John Turner) is away from the main part of the village in a rural setting. Close by is the former vicarage. It was here that the World War I poet Wilfred Owen lived from September 1911 to February 1913. He worked as a lay assistant to Rev. Herbert Wigan during this period.

Dunsden has its own village hall, used for community events and as a polling station during elections.

The Loddon Brewery operates from a converted two hundred year old traditional brick and flint barn at Dunsden Green Farm.

On 25 November 2007, a new community orchard was launch by the planting of a Blenheim Orange apple tree on the village green by Lord Phillimore, the main local landowner. The orchard is to be next to the green.

Position:

Nearby towns: Henley, Reading

Nearby villages: Binfield Heath, Littlestead Green, Playhatch

See also

• List of places in Oxfordshire

External links

• Eye & Dunsden Parish Council
• DotUKdirectory information
• The Loddon Brewery
• All Saints Church
• Wilfred Owen — The Vicarage
• Eye & Dunsden Community Orchard

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