Farmington, Gloucestershire

Farmington
Farmington
	View of the village green
	Farmington Location within Gloucestershire
Population	112
OS grid reference	SP134153
Civil parish	Farmington;
District	Cotswold;
Shire county	Gloucestershire;
Region	South West;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Cheltenham
Postcode district	GL54
Dialling code	01451
UK Parliament	Cotswold;
	List of places UK England Gloucestershire 51°50′10″N 1°48′18″W / 51.8361°N 1.8050°W

Farmington is a village located in the county of Gloucestershire, in England. As of 2011 the village had 112 residents. It is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Tormentone.^[2]

History

Farmington was sold in 1724 to Edmund Waller of Beaconsfield (died 1771); and thence by descent to Edmund Waller, MP for Amersham; Edmund Waller (1725–1788), MP for Wycombe; Edmund Waller (d.1810); Rev. Harry Waller (d.1824) (Rector of Farmington from 1786, and of Vicar of Winslow from 1789); Harry Edmund (d.1869); Edmund Waller (d.1898); and Major-General William Noel Waller, RA (d.1909), whose executors sold it in 1910.^[3]

The Church of St Peter was built in the 12th century. It is a grade-I listed building.^[4]

Notable residents

Robert Carr (1916–2012), English politician, buried in St. Peter's Churchyard

References

^ "Lead Key Figures". www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk. Retrieved 29 July 2015.
^ "The Domesday Book Online - Gloucestershire A-F". www.domesdaybook.co.uk. Retrieved 29 July 2015.
^ A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 9, Bradley Hundred. The Northleach Area of the Cotswolds. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 2001. ('Parishes: Farmington', ed. N M Herbert, pp. 69-81, by Carol Davidson Cragoe, A R J Jurica, and Elizabeth Williamson).
^ "Church of St. Peter". National Heritage List for England. Historic England. Retrieved 12 October 2020.

[1] "Lead Key Figures". www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk. Retrieved 29 July 2015.

[2] "The Domesday Book Online - Gloucestershire A-F". www.domesdaybook.co.uk. Retrieved 29 July 2015.

[3] A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 9, Bradley Hundred. The Northleach Area of the Cotswolds. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 2001. ('Parishes: Farmington', ed. N M Herbert, pp. 69-81, by Carol Davidson Cragoe, A R J Jurica, and Elizabeth Williamson).

[nhle-4] "Church of St. Peter". National Heritage List for England. Historic England. Retrieved 12 October 2020.

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