Dumbleton

Dumbleton
Village Drinking Fountain
Dumbleton is located in Gloucestershire
Dumbleton
Dumbleton
Location within Gloucestershire
Population576 (2011)[1]
OS grid referenceSP016360
• London90 miles
Civil parish
  • Dumbleton
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townEvesham
Postcode districtWR11
Dialling code01386
PoliceGloucestershire
FireGloucestershire
AmbulanceSouth Western
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52°01′21″N 1°58′41″W / 52.02242°N 1.97809°W / 52.02242; -1.97809

Dumbleton is a village and civil parish in the Tewkesbury district, in the county of Gloucestershire, England. The village is roughly 20 miles from the city of Gloucester. The village is known to have existed in the time of Æthelred I who granted land to Abingdon Abbey, and it is mentioned in the Domesday Book.[2]

Dumbleton is on the edge of Dumbleton Hill, a foothill of the Cotswolds and is within the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Dumbleton is mainly residential with facilities including a Village Hall from 1899, a successful Cricket Club (National Village Cup Winners 2022), a Social Club, Garden Club, Infants’ School (temporarily closed as of September 2022) and an Estate Office. The village also contains the main entrance to Dumbleton Hall, which now functions as a hotel.[3]

The civil parish includes the village of Great Washbourne which was a separate civil parish until 1935.[4] From 1935 to 2023 Wormington was also part of Dumbleton until the parish was split following a Community Governance Review.[5]

  1. ^ "Parish population 2011". Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  2. ^ "Open Domesday". Archived from the original on 27 December 2014. Retrieved 6 April 2012.
  3. ^ "CONSERVATION AREA Character Statement" (PDF). Tewkesbury Borough Council. Retrieved 6 April 2012.
  4. ^ Vision of Britain website
  5. ^ "Tewkesbury Borough Council (Reorganisation of Community Governance) (No.2) Order 2023" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 10 July 2023.