Description
Dunsden and Eye, a liberty in Oxfordshire, belonging to the parish of Sonning in Berks, and including Sonning Eye, Sonning Common, and a portion of Binfield Heath. Dunsden was made a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1876. It is about 3 1/4 miles NE from Reading. Post town, Reading; money order and telegraph office, Sonning. Acreage, 3151; population of the civil parish, 942 ; of the ecclesiastical, 578. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net yearly value, £370 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Sonning. The church, erected in 1842, is a building of grey brick in the Early English style.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
