Avon Dassett

Avon Dassett
Avon Dassett Location within Warwickshire
Population	210 (2011)
OS grid reference	SP410498
Civil parish	Avon Dassett
District	Stratford-on-Avon
Shire county	Warwickshire
Region	West Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	SOUTHAM
Postcode district	CV47
Police	Warwickshire
Fire	Warwickshire
Ambulance	West Midlands

Avon Dassett is a village and civil parish in the Stratford district of Warwickshire, England, nestling among the Burton Dassett Hills about four miles east of Kineton and seven miles north of Banbury in Oxfordshire. According to the 2001 and the 2011 censuses it had a population of 210.

Etymology

The name Dassett is first attested for this location in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Derceto and in 1173 as Derchet. This name comes from the Common Brittonic words that survive in modern Welsh as derw ("oaks") and coed ("woodland"), referring to the adjacent wolds. This Brittonic name, thought to be found also in Dosthill and Burton Dasset, was then extended to specify that the settlement in question was in the part of Dassett on the River Avon. This extended name is first attested in 1185, as Afnederceth.^{[1][2]: 337}

Famous people

Israel Tonge was at one stage appointed rector of Avon Dassett, although according to Tonge "illegall practices" prevented him taking up the position.^[3] Avon Carrow is located in Avon Dassett, the former residence of John Profumo, the local MP in the 1960s. He was central to the Profumo affair, a sex and spy scandal in that era.

See also

• St John the Baptist's Church, Avon Dassett

References

1. Watts, Victor, ed. (2004). The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521168557., s.v. Avon DASSET.
2. Coates, Richard; Breeze, Andrew (2000). Celtic Voices, English Places: Studies of the Celtic Impact on Place-Names in Britain. Stamford: Tyas. ISBN 1900289415..
3. Marshall, Alan (2008) [2004]. "Tonge, Israel (1621–1680)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/27535. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

• Warwickshire Towns & Villages, by Geoff Allen (2000) ISBN 1-85058-642-X

External links

• Avon Dassett Parish Council