Donnington, Herefordshire

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Donnington
Herefordshire

Lane at Lower House, Donnington
Location
Grid reference: SO708342
Location: 52°0’22"N, 2°25’31"W
Data
Post town: Ledbury
Postcode: HR8
Dialling code: 01531
Local Government
Council: Herefordshire
Parliamentary
constituency:
North Herefordshire

Donnington is a village in Herefordshire, near Ledbury.

Parish church

St Mary's, Donnington

The parish church is dedicated to St Mary.[1]

About the village

Donnington Hall is located here on the outskirts of the village.

In 1870-72, Donnington was described as:

"DONNINGTON, a parish in Ledbury district, Hereford; under the Malvern hills, at the boundary with Gloucester, 2¼ miles S of Ledbury town and r[ailway]. station. Post town, Ledbury. Acres, 808. Real property, £1, 566. Pop[ulation]., 105. Houses, 20. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £209.* Patron, R. Webb, Esq. The church is old but good; and has a wooden tower."[2]

Outside links

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References

  1. St Mary, Donnington - a church near you
  2. Wilson, John Marius (1870). Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales. Edinburgh: A. Fullerton & Co.. http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/2426. Retrieved 27 January 2015.