Dorton

Dorton (or Dourton) is a village and civil parish in the Aylesbury Vale district of Buckinghamshire.

It is in the western part of the county, about 5 miles (8 km) north of the Oxfordshire market town of Thame.

[2] Before the Norman conquest of England Alric, son of Goding, a thegn of Edward the Confessor, held the manor of Dorton.

[4] The south porch was added in the 13th century, es evidenced by a blocked window of that date in its east wall.

The line passes within a few yards of the village, and in 1937 the GWR opened Dorton Halt to serve it.