Dumbleton is a village in the English

England

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 county of Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn, and the entire Forest of Dean....

. The village is roughly 20 miles from Gloucester

Gloucester

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 and 50 miles from Bristol

Bristol

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.

The village is known to have existed in the time of Ethelred I

Ethelred of Wessex

King Æthelred I was King of Wessex from 865 to 871. He was the fourth son of King Æthelwulf of Wessex...

 who granted land to Abingdon Abbey

Abingdon Abbey

Abingdon Abbey was a Benedictine monastery also known as St Mary's Abbey located in Abingdon, historically in the county of Berkshire but now in Oxfordshire, England.-History:...

, and it is mentioned in the Domesday Book

Domesday Book

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.

St Peter's church is of Norman

Normans

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 origin with mainly 13th-century additions. The chancel was rebuilt in 1862. The travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor

Patrick Leigh Fermor

Sir Patrick "Paddy" Michael Leigh Fermor, DSO, OBE was a British author, scholar and soldier, who played a prominent role behind the lines in the Cretan resistance during World War II. He was widely regarded as "Britain's greatest living travel writer", with books including his classic A Time of...

 is buried in the churchyard with his wife Joan. The redundant

Redundant church

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 St Mary's Church, Little Washbourne

St Mary's Church, Little Washbourne

St Mary's Church, Little Washbourne, is a redundant Anglican church in the parish of Dumbleton, Gloucestershire, England. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust....

 is also in the parish

Parish

A parish is a territorial unit historically under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of one parish priest, who might be assisted in his pastoral duties by a curate or curates - also priests but not the parish priest - from a more or less central parish church with its associated organization...

 of Dumbleton.

Historic buildings include the Old Rectory (16th century) and Dumbleton Hall (1830), now a hotel known for its supposed hauntings.

External links

• Dumbleton Society
• GENUKI
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