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The village green at Dunsden |
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Dunsden Green
Dunsden Green shown within Oxfordshire |
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| OS grid reference | SU7377 |
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| Parish | Eye & Dunsden |
| District | South Oxfordshire |
| Shire county | Oxfordshire |
| Region | South East |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Reading |
| Postcode district | RG4 |
| Dialling code | 0118 |
| Police | Thames Valley |
| Fire | Oxfordshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
| UK Parliament | Henley |
| Website | Eye & Dunsden Parish Council |
| List of places: UK • England • Oxfordshire | |
Dunsden Green or Dunsden is a village in the civil parish of Eye & Dunsden in South Oxfordshire, about 3 miles (4.8 km) northeast of Reading, Berkshire. Before 1866, it was part of the Oxfordshire section of Sonning civil parish.
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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.
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 from September 1911 to February 1913 when he served as a lay assistant to the parish priest, Rev. Herbert Wigan.[3]
The village school was built in 1848. It is now the village hall.[4]
In 2002 the Loddon Brewery was established in a converted 18th century brick and flint barn at Dunsden Green Farm.[5]
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.[6] The orchard will be beside the village green.
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