Daglingworth is a

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village in the valley of the River Dunt, near the

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connecting

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and

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. As with many smaller villages in the Cotswolds, most of the buildings are now private houses. Other properties are the church, the village hall, a stable & horse riding centre and Bridge Farm. The Church of the Holy Rood in the village is an

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church with well-preserved stone carvings, including an Anglo-Saxon crucifixion tablet dating to 1015. There is also a

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on the south wall. The population taken at the 2011 census was 265. 2022 Daglingworth view

History

In the late 19th century, George Witts made reference to Daglingworth

Roman Villa A Roman villa was typically a farmhouse or country house built in the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, sometimes reaching extravagant proportions. Typology and distribution Pliny the Elder (23–79 AD) distinguished two kinds of villas n ...

About the year 1690 the foundations of a Roman villa were discovered in the parish of Daglingworth, close to the
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, two and a half miles north-west of Cirencester. It was situated in a field called "Cave Close." I am not aware of any description of this, and am unable to give any details as to dimensions, or as to what articles of antiquity were found.

There is a Roman votive tablet in the vestry wall of the church, and two pieces of carved stone found in Daglingworth representing Genii Cucullati, a hooded sect of the

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period, are now in the

Corinium Museum The Corinium Museum, in the Cotswold town of Cirencester in England, has a large collection of objects found in and around the locality. The bulk of the exhibits are from the Roman town of Corinium Dobunnorum, but the museum includes material from ...

. The name Daglingworth dates back to 1150. Translated literally it means 'enclosure of the family or adherents of Dæggel or Dæccel'. Worth is the old English (Saxon) word for enclosure. The first mention of a church in the village is in 1177 when Ralf Bluet, lord of the manor, conveyed it to the nuns of Godstow. In 1212 the abbess appointed John de Gundeville to serve the church as parish priest. Historically the village had 3 schools, all of which are now private houses. Daglingworth Manor School was a private school that closed in the 1970s. It was housed in Daglingworth Manor which was the historic manor house for the village. Daglingworth primary school closed in 1986. There was also a small nursery school.

References

External links

Daglingworth Village Hall
{{authority control Villages in Gloucestershire