Dorton
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Dorton (or Dourton) is a village and civil parish in the Buckinghamshire district of the county of Buckinghamshire, England. It is in the Aylesbury Vale area in the western part of the county, about north of the Oxfordshire market town of Thame.
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- Locality
- Dorton
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- UK place.official_name
- Dorton
- UK place.static_image_name
- DortonChurch(AndrewSmith)Mar2006.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- St John the Baptist parish church
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SP6814
- UK place.population
- 166
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011 Census)
- UK place.civil_parish
- Dorton
- UK place.unitary_england
- Buckinghamshire
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Buckinghamshire
- UK place.region
- South East England
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Mid Buckinghamshire
- UK place.post_town
- Aylesbury
- UK place.postcode_district
- HP18
- UK place.postcode_area
- HP
- UK place.dial_code
- 01844
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Manor
- Parish church
- Economic and social history
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Dorton (or Dourton) is a village and civil parish in the Buckinghamshire district of the county of Buckinghamshire, England. It is in the Aylesbury Vale area in the western part of the county, about north of the Oxfordshire market town of Thame.
==Manor== The village toponym is derived from the Old English for "farm at a narrow pass". The Domesday Book of 1086 records it as Dortone, and in the 13th century it was Durtone.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dorton” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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