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Dormington Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Dormington

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Dormington history

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In the Domesday Book, Dormington is listed as “Dermentune”, in the Greytree Hundred of Herefordshire. The settlement contained two households, with one smallholder and a slave. The Lord of the manor in 1066 was Estan the canon, who was only associated with this one manor at the time. The lordship in 1086 was transferred to Walter, with the canons of St Guthlac’s Priory in Hereford becoming Tenant-in-chief to king William I. Dormington was recorded as ‘Dorminton’ in 1206, being an estate associated with a person name deriving from the Old English Dēormōd or Dēormund with ‘ing’ or ‘tūn’. In 1911 a Roman pavement and Roman Key were found at Dormington House, the parsonage next to St Peter’s Church; a further investigation in 1951 revealed no evidence of such. In 1942, at the southeast of Perton Quarry within Dormington were found Romano-British fragments of pottery. Two sets of medieval strip lynchets, agricultural earth terraces, exist 1,000 yards (900 m) to the east of the village. In the 19th century, Dormington ecclesiastical parish included the chapelry and township of Bartestree. It was on the Hereford, Ledbury and Worcester section of the Great Western Railway, and was in the Hereford petty sessional division, Union—poor relief provision set up under the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834—and county court district, and the Archdeaconry and Diocese of Hereford. The church register dates to 1690. The church incumbency was under a vicarage, which provided a residence and 6 acres (20,000 m) of glebe—an area of productive land directly supporting the incumbent and church—within Dormington and 74 acres (0.3 km) at other parishes. The perpetual curracy of Bartestree was subordinate to Dormington. The Bartestree part of the ecclesiastical parish included the Church of St James, rebuilt in 1877. The Catholic Convent of Our Lady of Charity and Refuge was established in Bartestree in 1863, to the designs of E. W. Pugin with later additions, to conduct the “reformation of fallen women”, its funding derived from the revenues of the convent’s foundation and from inmates’ laundry work and underclothing manufacture. The convent was part of the Order of Our Lady of Charity, founded in 1641 by Saint John Eudes at Caen. Attached to the convent was a pre-Reformation chapel (Longworth Roman Catholic Chapel), physically transferred from Longworth and re-erected in 1870. In 1851 there were 128 inhabitants of Dormington, plus 61 in Bartestree township. Dormington trades listed included four farmers, including one at ‘Clastons’ in the northwest of the parish, and William Vevers at Dormington Court; at Barstree there were three farmers. In 1861 Dormington population was 77, in 941 acres (3.8 km) of land, with Lady Emily Foley as lady of the manor and chief landowner. Dormington Court was described as attached to “an extensive farm”, and the residence of Thomas Vevers. Further trades included four farmers, including those at Prospect cottage, Prior’s Court, and Glaston. The population of Bartestree was 61 within 410 acres (1.7 km), with Bartestree Court “an extensive farm” occupied and owned by William Vevers. There were two other farmers listed. Land use at the time was chiefly for pasture and the growing of hops, wheat and beans. In 1909, the Lord of the manor and chief landowner was Paul Henry Foley of Stoke Edith Park in Stoke Edith parish. Population of Dormington in 1901 was 95, without Barstree. Land and water area combined was 977 acres (4 km). The soil was red loam on which were “several extensive hop grounds”. The area of Bartestree was 421 acres (1.7 km), in which was arable land, pasture meadow and hop growing, with a 1901 population of 265. Commercial listings included a farmer and hop grower at Dormington Court, and a farmer at ‘Clastons’ who was a hop grower and also a breeder of pure bred Hereford cattle and pedigree Ryland sheep, and a farmer and hop grower at Prior’s Court. At Bartestree was a farmer at Bartestree Court who was also a hop grower and cider maker, a further farmer, and a farm bailiff. In 1931 Dormington had a population of 108, with its vicarage now under the rectory of Stoke Edith. There was still a farmer at Prospect Farm, and three others who were also hop growers, at Dormington court, Wooton, and Claston. Kelley’s mentioned “several extensive hop grounds in this locality”. Hop growing with machine harvesting, usually in September, is still carried out, particularly on 230 acres (0.93 km) of land at Claston Farm at the north-east of the village on the A438 road. Between the 1950s and 1960s commercial hop-picking by hand ended. Before then family teams of pickers included those from The Midlands and South Wales, augmenting those from traveller families. The introduction of new varieties of dwarf hops at Dormington, which grow in the form of hedges, were seen as more conducive to machine harvesting.

Dormington landmarks

The Church of St Peter, within the village, is a Grade II* listed late 13th-century parish church in Decorated style, comprising a nave and chancel, with roofs dating to at least the 17th century. Dormington House, adjacent to the church at its west is a three-storey late 18th. 1841 Grand National winner Charity trained for William Craven, 2nd Earl of Craven.

Dormington geography / climate

Dormington village is at the south side of the A438 road with its junction with Clay Hill Pit (road) Within the village is St Peter’s Church, within the Deanery of Hereford, a dog grooming business and a modern residential development of detached and semidetached houses. The parish comprises farms, fields, woodland and dispersed residential properties.

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Dormington has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Dormington’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Dormington’s information audio spots:

Lugwardine Lugwardine is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire. It lies on the north-east bank of the River Lugg, which gives the village its name. The name means ‘enclosure or homestead on the (river) Lugg’ The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 Census was 1,721.

Stoke Edith The 14th-century church of St Mary is a grade I listed building. It has an immaculate needle spire set behind a parapet recess. The Foleys rebuilt the stone church completely in 1740.

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