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[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]
"DORSINGTON, a parish in the upper division of the hundred of Kiftsgate, in the county of Gloucester, 4 miles N.E. of the Honeybourne station on the Oxford and Wolverhampton railway, and 4 S.W. of Stratford-on-Avon. Long Marston is its post town. It is situated near the river Avon, and at the time of the Domesday Survey belonged to Roger de Belmont, from whom it descended to the earls of Warwick. The greater part of the parish is a stiff clay, and the land chiefly arable. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value £199, in the patronage of J. Harward, Esq. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, is a small brick structure of the middle of the last century. The whole village with the church was destroyed by fire in 1754. There is a small charity of £1."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
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- Original source material relating to Dorsington, and other parishes in Diocese of Warwick may be found at the Warwickshire County Record Office; with the exeception of Bishops Transcripts, which (if they exist) should be found at Gloucestershire Archives.
- The transcription of the section for Dorsington from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Dorsington to another place.
- The parish of Dorsington was transferred from Gloucestershire to Warwickshire in 1931.
[Ref: Handlist of the contents of the Gloucestershire Archives, 1995, et al.]
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SP135495 (Lat/Lon: 52.143866, -1.803731), Dorsington which are provided by:
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