Doynton

[1] Doynton is a village situated on the lower slopes of the Cotswolds, approximately two miles south-east of Pucklechurch.

[4] The area of Doynton Mill and its immediate surroundings to the north of the village are not longer part of it as they are used for light industrial purposes.

Doynton has retained its village-like quality: indeed the tithe map of 1840 shows how little the village has changed since then.

Its features include 12th-century herringbone masonry on the south wall - a style almost unique in this part of the country.

[6] North-west of the church there is evidence of a group of mediaeval fishponds which provided a source of food to supplement the diet of villagers in the Middle Ages.

Doynton and the River Boyd were immortalised by the poet and fisherman John Dennys, Squire of Pucklechurch, in his poem "The Secrets of Angling", the earliest English poetical treatise on fishing, published in 1613:And thou sweet Boyd that with thy watry sway Dost wash the cliffes of Deington and of Weeke And through their Rockes with crooked winding way Thy mother Avon runnest soft to seeke.