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Henley and the Chilterns
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… Bulstrode Whitelocke and his descendants, who lived at Fawley and Phyllis Court. Over the following decades a new … amongst them the Drapers of Park Place and the Freemans of Fawley Court (both just over the county boundary), or in the …
Henley: Boundaries, Landscape and Population
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… reversal was apparently temporary. 4 In 1731 the lord of Fawley estimated the town's population (not necessarily … Census, 19512001; OS Map 1:25000, sheet 171 (1999 edn). Fawley Map (1788); cf. OS Area Bk (1879); OS Map 1:2500, … VI, C.4609; below, devpt of the town. Above, parish bdies. Fawley Map (1788); OS Map 1:2500, Oxon. LIV.9 (1879 edn). …
Henley: Communications
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… winter, both by snow and by flooding. In 1787 roads around Fawley were impassable for several days, and twenty years … concerning some local gentry. In 1769 Sambrooke Freeman of Fawley Court arranged for it to be covered with boards … no purpose but to improve the view from Freeman's house at Fawley Court. William Hayward of Shrewsbury was engaged as …
Henley: Henley and Fillets Manors
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… again from the late 18th it was usually owned with nearby Fawley manor (Bucks.), passing from the Whitelockes to the … of whom all lived at Henley or (more usually) at Fawley Court. The rest of Henley parish remained part of … 17 Henry seems to have sold it to John Alford of Fawley in 1586, but recovered it (excluding the park) four …
Henley: Local Government
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… end of the Fair Mile was bought from Edward Mackenzie of Fawley Court and consecrated in 1868, together with two newly … 13 Jan. 1892. The site was given by W.D. Mackenzie of Fawley Court. ORO, BOR3/A/VII/CM/5, pp. 4734. Above, devpt of …
Henley: Origin and Development of the Town
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… protracted legal disputes with Strickland Freeman of Fawley Court who, as lord, claimed manorial rights over the … below, social hist. J. Rocque, Map of Berks. (1761); Fawley Map (1788). ORO, BOR3/A/V/BM/5, ff. 50v., 145. Ibid. … the Oxford or Dorchester road. G. Tyack, 'The Freemans of Fawley and their Buildings', Records of Bucks 24 (1982), 140. …
Henley: Outlying Estates and Country Houses
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… separated from Henley manor in 1590, when John Alford of Fawley excepted it from his sale to the earl of Huntingdon. 4 … or so south of the house in 1731, by John Freeman of Fawley Court, but was destroyed in 1974. 15 Friar Park Estate … Henley, 306; Gardner's Dir. Oxon. (1852), 543; Sale Cats, Fawley Court Estate (1853 and 1952): copies in ORO, SC 231, …
Henley: Outlying Farms and Agriculture
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… field, Park field, Thames field, and the 'field next to Fawley'. 11 It is unclear when these fields were created, but … c. 600 a. in the north of the parish in hand as part of Fawley Court farm (825 a.). 22 This very large holding was … of James Sharpe: 470 a. north of the Fair Mile and west of Fawley lane, mostly belonging to the Freemans. Much of this …
Henley: Religious History
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… at Henley to allow a sermon by the rector of neighbouring Fawley. On that occasion he was forcibly removed by the … of Badgemore in 1711, 16 and in 1774 Sambrooke Freeman of Fawley Court paid for the setting up a gilt ball on the … in Bodl. MS Top. Oxon. a 67, f. 318. It survives reset at Fawley Court dairy: Burn, Henley, 12; G. Tyack, 'The Freemans …
Henley: Social and Political History
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… arrival of the judge and lawyer Sir James Whitelocke at Fawley Court in 1617, and the family's piecemeal acquisition … living first at Phyllis Court and, from 1768, again at Fawley. 9 Bulstrode Whitelocke's first legal work was for … Henley suffered the comings and goings of both sides. Fawley Court was ransacked by Royalists in autumn 1642, and …