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Also known as Dorton, Buckinghamshire

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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Place details

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

6 sections
Contents
  • Manor
  • Parish church
  • Economic and social history
  • References
  • Sources
  • External links

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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