DONNINGTON (nr. Stow on the Wold)

Archives and Libraries

• Original source material relating to Donnington (nr. Stow on the Wold), and other parishes in Diocese of Gloucester may be found at the Gloucestershire Archives.

Gazetteers

• "DONNINGTON, a hamlet in the parish of Stow-on-the-Wold, upper division of the hundred of Slaughter, in the county of Gloucester, 1½ mile N. of Stow. In 1646 the royalists under Lord Aston were defeated here by Colonel Morgan, which victory occasioned the surrender of the king's garrison at Oxford."
  [Description from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

• “Township, parish of and 1½ miles north from Stow-on-the-Wold, East Gloucestershire. Acreage 1,053. Here is a brewery. Nearest railway station: Stow-on-the-Wold 1½ miles. Distance from London: 89 miles. Population: 111.”
  [Description from Cassell's Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1899) transcribed by Brian Willey. Added 6 Jul 2005]

Historical Geography

• "Formerly a detached hamlet of Stow-on-the-Wold; now a civil parish."
  (Ref: Guide to the Parish Records of the City of Bristol and the County of Gloucester; I. Gray & E. Ralph, 1963)

Names, Geographical

• You may be interested in other places named Don(n)ington in the UK:
  • Castle Donington, Leicestershire
  • Donington, Leicestershire (nr Ibstock)
  • Donington, Lincolnshire (nr Spalding)
  • Donington, Shropshire (nr Newport)
  • Donington, Shropshire (nr Shifnal)
  • Donington-on-Bain, Lincolnshire (nr Louth)
  • Donington Wood, Shropshire (nr Lilleshall)
  • Donnington, Berkshire (nr Newbury)
  • Donnington, Herefordshire (nr Ledbury)
  • Donnington, Shropshire (nr Wellington)
  • Donnington, Sussex (nr Chichester)
  Most of them are small, but all are mentioned in Cassell's Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland, 1899, cited above.