Dorton

Other current and historical names

Dourton
Dortone

Parish/Community: Dorton
District/Borough: Aylesbury Vale
County: Buckinghamshire
Region: South East

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 51°49'21"N 1°0'48"W
Eastings/Northings: 468085, 214243
OS Grid: SP680142
Mapcode Local: GBR 9ZT.NL3
Mapcode Global: VHDV1.DG02

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Dorton within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Dorton in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Dorton, par., Bucks, 5½ miles NW. of Thame, 1477 ac., pop. 111.

Dorton in the Domesday Book

A village in Ixhill hundred, in the county of Buckinghamshire.

- Overlord in 1066: King Edward
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Alric son of Goding
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Walter Giffard
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Walter Giffard
- Taxable Value: 5 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £5 in 1066; £5 in 1070; £5 in 1086
- Households: 12 villagers; 6 smallholders; 3 slaves
- Plough Teams: 3 lord's ploughs; 4 men's ploughs (7 plough lands)
- Meadow: 3 ploughs
- Woodland: 100 pigs

British Place Names

Dorton, Buckinghamshire

Dorton is a village in Buckinghamshire

Dorton in historic gazetteers

Dorton in the Domesday Book