Avon Dassett

Human settlement in England

Avon Dassett

District

Stratford-on-Avon

Warwickshire

Region

West Midlands

CountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townSOUTHAMPostcode districtCV47PoliceWarwickshireFire Warwickshire Ambulance West Midlands

List of places: UK; England; Warwickshire

52°08′45″N 1°24′05″W / 52.14577°N 1.40132°W / 52.14577; -1.40132

Avon Dassett is a village and civil parish in the Stratford district of Warwickshire, England, nestling among the Burton Dassett Hills about four miles east of Kineton and seven miles north of Banbury in Oxfordshire. According to the 2001 and the 2011 censuses it had a population of 210. Israel Tonge was at one stage appointed rector of Avon Dassett - although according to Tonge "illegall practices" prevented him taking up the position.^[1] Avon Carrow is located in Avon Dassett, the former residence of John Profumo, the local MP in the 1960s. He was central to the Profumo affair, a sex and spy scandal in that era.

References

^ Marshall, Alan (2008) [2004]. "Tonge, Israel (1621–1680)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/27535. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)