Farmington, Gloucestershire

Farmington

View of the village green
Farmington
Farmington shown within Gloucestershire
Population 112 [1]
OS grid reference SP134153
Civil parish
  • Farmington
District
Unitary authority
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Cheltenham
Postcode district GL54
Dialling code 01451
EU Parliament South West England
UK Parliament

Farmington is a village located in the county of Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. As of 2011 the village had 112 residents. Farmington is mentioned in the Domesday Book (1086) as Tormentone.[2]

Farmington was sold in 1724 to Edmund Waller of Beaconsfield (died 1771); and thence by descent to Edmund Waller (d.1788); 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]

Edmund Waller's (d.1898) Farmington Lodge, Northleach, Gloucestershire, west front, 1893.
Edmund Waller VI or VII, (1828-98), JP, DL, of Farmington Lodge, 1869-1898.
Brass plaque to Edmund Waller (1828-98) in church of St. Peter's.
Waller of Farmington chart, 1560-1954.

References

  1. ↑ "Lead Key Figures". www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk. Retrieved 2015-07-29.
  2. ↑ "The Domesday Book Online - Gloucestershire A-F". www.domesdaybook.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-07-29.
  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).
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