Dunsden Green

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A view of Dunsden Green in the summer of 2006.

Dunsden Green (also known as Dunsden) is a village in the English county of Oxfordshire.

The village is part of the civil parish of Eye & Dunsden, with the villages of Sonning Eye and Playhatch, at the very southernmost tip of Oxfordshire, between the towns of Reading and Henley-on-Thames. Before 1866, it formed part of the Oxfordshire section of Sonning civil parish.

The place name is recorded in Domesday book of 1086 as 'Dunesdene', or 'valley of a man named Dyn(n)e'. It was known as 'Donsden Grene' from 1586.

All Saints Church

All Saints Church (built 1842, architect John Turner) is away from the main part of the village in a rural setting. Close by is the former vicarage. It was here that the World War I poet Wilfred Owen lived from September 1911 to February 1913. He worked as a lay assistant to Rev. Herbert Wigan during this period.

Dunsden has its own village hall, used for community events and as a polling station during elections.

The Loddon Brewery operates from a converted two hundred year old traditional brick and flint barn at Dunsden Green Farm.

On 25 November 2007, a new community orchard [1] was launch by the planting of a Blenheim Orange apple tree on the village green by Lord Phillimore, the main local landowner. The orchard is to be next to the green.

Position: grid reference SU739772

Nearby towns: Henley, Reading

Nearby villages: Binfield Heath, Littlestead Green, Playhatch