DONNINGTON, a hamlet in the parish of STOW-on-the-WOLD,
upper division of the hundred of SLAUGHTER,
county of GLOUCESTER, 1 mile (N.) from Stow
on the Wold, containing 201 inhabitants. A battle was
fought here in 1645, in which the royalists under Lord
Aston were defeated by Colonel Morgan; this victory occasioned
the surrender of the king's garrison at Oxford,
and hastened the termination of the protracted war.