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Encyclopedia > Dunton, Buckinghamshire

Dunton is a village in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located in the Aylesbury Vale, about eight miles from Aylesbury and six miles from Winslow.


The village name is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means 'Doda's farm'. In the Domesday Book of 1086 it was recorded as Dodintone.


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War memorials in Dunton have been transcribed by Peter Quick, and published in a booklet entitled "War Memorials and War Graves: North Central Bucks, Volume 4", available from the Buckinghamshire Genealogical Society.
DUNTON, in the hundred of Cotslow and deanery of Muresley, lies about eight miles north of Aylesbury, and about four miles south-east of Winslow.
In or about the year 1729, Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, purchased it of that family: by her bequest it devolved to her grandson, John Spencer, grandfather of Earl Spencer, who is the present proprietor, and patron of the rectory.
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