Dorsington is a village and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district, in the county of Warwickshire, England. Dorsington was in Gloucestershire until 1931, when it was transferred to Warwickshire.[1] It is located 2¾ miles west of Milcote railway station.[2] The place-name 'Dorsington' is first attested in an Anglo-Saxon charter of 710, where it appears as Dorsintone. It is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Dorsintune. The name means 'the town or settlement of Deorsige's people'.[3] In the 2001 census, it had a population of 138 (64 males; 74 females; living in 49 houses).[4] By the 2011 Census, the population had increased to 150.[5] The parish church of St Peter's is a Grade II* listed building built in 1764–1768.[6] Dorsington was the original centre of the Heart of England Forest, begun by the businessman and philanthropist Felix Dennis.
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Dorsington is a village and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district, in the county of Warwickshire, England. Dorsington was in Gloucestershire until...
history of Dorsington, the village in Warwickshire, where Felix Dennis lived, he was encouraged by the editor of the History of Dorsington, Joan Lane...
Gloucester, his Heirs and Assigns, upon the Conditions therein mentioned. Dorsington (Gloucestershire) Inclosure Act 1776 16 Geo. 3. c. 35 22 March 1776 An...
commissioned by Felix Dennis, are in the Garden of Heroes and Villains nea Dorsington, Warwickshire. "The Long March", in the Royal Air Force Museum London...
Pebworth is bordered to the north and north-east by the parishes of Dorsington and Long Marston, which are today in Warwickshire. The Priory of Pebworth...
held by Saxi who also possessed land at Walton, Charlecote, Bramcote, Dorsington and Werlavescote but by 1086 it was held by the Count of Meulan; "in Ferncombe...
Forest was laid in 1996 when Dennis planted the first trees near his Dorsington home. This act marked the beginning of an extensive afforestation effort...
Remainder of PLU in Worcestershire. Stratford on Avon PLU Clifford Chambers, Dorsington, Long Marston, Preston upon Stour, Welford (Gloucestershire portion),...
Tresham A. B. Imeson as Hon. Clement Hungerford Charles Vane as Vis. Dorsington Margot Drake as Margaret Fred Morgan as Capt. Rashleigh Gordon Craig as...
district. The district comprised six civil parishes: Clifford Chambers Dorsington Marston Sicca Preston on Stour Welford-on-Avon Weston-on-Avon In February...
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