Dunsden Green
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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 is located 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.
The Loddon Brewery operates from a converted two hundred year old traditional brick and flint barn at Dunsden Green Farm.
 A view of Dunsden Green in the summer of 2006. |
Position: grid reference SU739772
Nearby villages: Binfield Heath, Littlestead Green, Playhatch
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- Eye & Dunsden Parish Council
- DotUKdirectory information
- The Loddon Brewery
- All Saints Church
- Wilfred Owen — The Vicarage
