Farmington is a village located in the county of

Gloucestershire Gloucestershire ( , ; abbreviated Glos.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by Herefordshire to the north-west, Worcestershire to the north, Warwickshire to the north-east, Oxfordshire ...

, in

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. As of 2011 the village had 112 residents. It is mentioned in the

Domesday Book Domesday Book ( ; the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of William the Conqueror. The manuscript was originally known by ...

of 1086 as ''Tormentone.''

History

Farmington was sold in 1724 to

Edmund Waller Edmund Waller, 3 March 1606 to 21 October 1687, was a poet and politician from Buckinghamshire. He sat as MP for various constituencies between 1624 and 1687, and was one of the longest serving members of the English House of Commons. Althoug ...

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(died 1771); and thence by descent to

, MP for

Amersham Amersham ( ) is a market town and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, in the Chiltern Hills, northwest of central London, south-east of Aylesbury and north-east of High Wycombe. Amersham is part of the London commuter belt. There ar ...

;

(1725–1788), MP for Wycombe; 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.''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). The

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was built in the 12th century. It is a grade-I

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Notable residents

Robert Carr Leonard Robert Carr, Baron Carr of Hadley, (11 November 1916 – 17 February 2012) was a British Conservative Party politician who served as Home Secretary from 1972 to 1974. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for 26 years, and later s ...

(1916–2012), English politician, buried in St. Peter's Churchyard

References

{{authority control Villages in Gloucestershire Civil parishes in Gloucestershire Cotswold District