Description
Doynton, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire, on the river Boyd near the boundaries with Wilts and Somerset, 4 miles E of Mangotsfield station on the M.R., 5 W of Marsh-field, and 6 NNW of Bath, with a post office under Bath; money order and telegraph office, Pucklechurch. Acreage, 1728, population, 391. Tracy Park and Doynton House are the chief residences. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £329 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is old, and was enlarged in 1864; the chancel was restored in 1893. There is a Congregational chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
