Farmington, Gloucestershire

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Farmington
Gloucestershire

View of the village green
Location
Grid reference: SP134153
Location: 51°50’10"N, 1°48’18"W
Data
Population: 112  (2011)
Post town: Cheltenham
Postcode: GL54
Dialling code: 01451
Local Government
Council: Cotswold
Parliamentary
constituency:
The Cotswolds

Farmington is a village in Gloucestershire, and amongst the Cotswold Hills. The village had 112 residents in 2011 according to the census of that year.

In the Domesday Book of 1086, Farmington is listed as Tormentone.[1]

Farmington Lodge in 1893

History

Farmington was sold in 1724 to Edmund Waller of Beaconsfield, and from him it passed by descent to his descendants for almost two hundred years until the death of Major-General William Noel Waller, RA in 1909, whose executors sold it in 1910.[2]

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References

  1. Farmington: The Domesday Book Online - Gloucestershire
  2. A History of the County of Gloucester - Volume 9 pp 69-81: Parishes: Farmington (Victoria County History)