Farmington, Gloucestershire
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Farmington | |
Gloucestershire | |
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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]
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]
Outside links
("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Farmington, Gloucestershire) |
References
- ↑ Farmington: The Domesday Book Online - Gloucestershire
- ↑ A History of the County of Gloucester - Volume 9 pp 69-81: Parishes: Farmington (Victoria County History)