DUNNINGTON, (Leicestershire) Castle and Park, by the Trent, and in the most N. b. of the Co. (being but 1 m. from Derby) so called from a castle built here by the Beaumonts Es. of Leicester, went from them to John Lacy E. of Lincoln, who procured it a Mt. and Fair from Edw. I. but they have been long since disused. It was afterwards forfeited to the crown; and therein continued, till the R. of Q. Eliz. when Robert E. of Essex having a grant of the park, sold it to the E. of Huntington. Here was formerly a mon.