Lower_Assendon

Lower Assendon

Lower Assendon

Human settlement in England

Lower Assendon is a village in the Assendon valley in the Chiltern Hills, about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) northwest of Henley-on-Thames in South Oxfordshire, England. The road between Henley and Wallingford passes the village. It was made into a turnpike in 1736 and ceased to be a turnpike in 1873.[1] It is now classified the A4130. The village has a public house, The Golden Ball, that is now a gastropub.[2] Henley Park is just east of the village. It was a medieval deer park and in 1300 became part of the manor of Henley.[3] In the Georgian era the park was converted into a landscape garden with "beautiful inclosures descending in natural waving slopes from the house."[4] Fairmile Cemetery, on a hillside southwest of the village, belongs to Henley Town Council.

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References

  1. [1]
    Turnpike Roads in England
  2. [2]
    Luscombes the Golden Ball
  3. [3]
    Emery, 1974, page 206
  4. [4]
    Emery, 1974, page 131

Sources

  • Emery, Frank (1974). The Oxfordshire Landscape. The Making of the English Landscape. London: Hodder & Stoughton. pp. 131, 206. ISBN 0-340-04301-6.

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