DUNSTON - A Hamlet in South Staffordshire

DUNSTON
~ A Hamlet in South Staffordshire ~

Shown in Doomsday as the king's manor of Dunestone, and later recorded as Doneston (1242),
Dunston is built around St. Leonard's Church.
The original Saxon would have been 'Dunn's tun (farmstead)', little different from today's form.

The civil parish of Dunston, formerly part of the ancient parish of Penkridge, lies mainly to the west of the Stafford-Wolverhampton road north of Penkridge. It is bounded on the east by the Penk, and part of the northern boundary is formed by the Pothooks Brook, which enters the Penk at the northeastern extremity of the parish, and by a tributary of the brook. The ground slopes from 375 ft. in the west to below 250 ft. at the Penk. Part of Penkridge was added to the civil parish of Dunston under the Staffordshire Review Order of 1934, increasing the area from 1,448 acres to 1,752 acres. In 1680 there were 20 houses in Dunston, and in 1817 44 houses, with a population of 214. The population in 1951 was 295.

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St. Leonard's School

St. Leonard's Church

Contact Magazine

Sylvia Wood's Water Colours - Workshop Photos

Dunston Craft Club - including Exhibition Photos

Dunston Notice Board

Camping in Dunston

Early Dunston

Waste Disposal - Failed Collections

View all Planning Applications for South Staffordshire

Welsh Cobs in Dunston Staffordshire

HL Shaw - Joiner and Property Repairs

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2007 - June - Floods - Click Here



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Dunston with Coppenhall
Parish Council
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The Blight of Local Car Boot Sales
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Dig out your photo albums, and start snapping!
The BBC is trying to create a picture of life in Staffordshire 2008 by accepting as many photos as possible from the county's residents…. And they need those photos as quickly as possible. They are calling this project 'The Big Picture'.
The photos can be as simple as ones of your back garden or your front room - and you can be in them, or not. You can send in a photo of your local bus-stop, or favourite corner of your neighbourhood pub… or even your pets… or sights on your walks round the area. One man from Newcastle under Lyme submitted 5000 pictures!
All photos are welcome, and there is no cost involved as all you have to do is post them on a website. All is explained on the BBC Staffordshire site. Just paste this web-address into your browser - bbc.co.uk/staffordshire/the_big_picture - and that also shows you how to submit your photos.
But - and this is the thing - you need to do it quickly, because the Big Picture project must finish on June 30th!
Okay - get snapping - it's your chance to make your garden/area/street famous! …"

I hope you can help.

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