Dorton or Dourton, Warwickshire
Historical Description
Dorton or Dourton, a village and a parish in Buckinghamshire, near Bernwood Forest, 7 miles N by W of Thame town, and 2½ E from Brill station on the Metropolitan railway. Post town, Thame; money order and telegraph office, Brill. Acreage of the civil parish, 1477; population, 137; of the ecclesiastical, which includes Ashendon, 336. Dorton House, erected in 1627, is a seat of the Aubreys; it formerly belonged to the Dormers. A chalybeate spa is situated at the foot of Brill Hill. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Ashendon, in the diocese of Oxford; joint value, £180 The church is old but good. Dosthill, a village in Kingsbury parish, Warwickshire, I1-mile SW of Wilnecote station on the M.R., and 3¼ miles SW of Tamworth. It has a chapel of ease to Kingsbury parish church, erected in 1872.
Land and Property
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Newspapers and Periodicals
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Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of Warwickshire 1619 is available on the Heraldry page.