Welcome to Eye and Dunsden
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Eye and Dunsden is a largely rural civil parish in the most southern part of the English county of Oxfordshire. It includes the villages of Sonning Eye, Dunsden Green and Playhatch and borders on the River Thames with the village of Sonning in Berkshire connected via multi-span medieval Sonning Bridge (a series of bridges across channels, in sections replaced due to erosion and narrowness). Before 1866, Eye & Dunsden was part of the trans-county parish of Sonning.Up to 2003, the parish also included the western half of the village of Binfield Heath which was then joined with the rest of that village, previously in Shiplake, to create a new parish. To the west, it abuts Berkshire's county town Reading. To the east is also the parish of Shiplake, the near part of which on the road to Henley-on-Thames is known as Shiplake Row. Sonning Common and the relatively early 2000s-created civil parish of Binfield Heath around that village rise to the north. In 2011 its population was 366, bar farmhouses, riverboats and caravans all grouped in the above three settlements. Caversham Lakes, including the Thames and Kennet Marina, Redgrave Pinsent Rowing Lake, Reading Sailing Club, Isis Water Ski Club, and Sonning Works, are all on the Thames flood plain within the parish. Berry Brook starts close to the Redgrave-Pinsent Rowing Lake to the southwest, running northeast through the River Thames floodplain past Playhatch, under the B478 Playhatch Road near the Sonning Works, before joining the river at Hallsmead Ait. Eye & Dunsden features some ancient wooded parts of the Chiltern Hills and rolling farmland.
Parish Information
Parish statistics
Area |
n/a |
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Population |
421 (2021) |
Density |
n/a |
Mean age |
39.7 |
Ward |
Shiplake |
District |
South Oxfordshire |
Postcodes |
RG4 |
ONS ID |
E04008128 |
Council
Contact details for Eye and Dunsden Parish Council, including current councillors, precept data and election results.
Education
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Business
Business directory listing local businesses operating within Eye and Dunsden Parish.
Planning
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Property
Price paid data for all property sold in Eye and Dunsden Parish since 2018. Includes average prices for each property type.
Heritage
Local heritage sites, historic churches, heritage pubs plus local heritage initiatives for Eye and Dunsden Parish.
Local News
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Seven parishes make joint bid to be moved into AONB
Published: 3rd Mar 2024
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Project aims to document history of Oxfordshire's towns and villages
Published: 30th Mar 2022
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George Clooney facing tennis court planning row over Sonning Eye house
Published: 8th Oct 2015