Lower Assendon
Coordinates: 51°33′18″N 0°55′41″W / 51.555°N 0.928°W / 51.555; -0.928
Lower Assendon is a village in the Stonor 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.
References
Sources
- Emery, Frank (1974). The Oxfordshire Landscape. The Making of the English Landscape. London: Hodder & Stoughton. pp. 131, 206. ISBN 0-340-04301-6.
External links
Media related to Lower Assendon at Wikimedia Commons
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- Adwell
- Aston Rowant
- Aston Tirrold
- Aston Upthorpe
- Baldons, (Baldon Row, Marsh Baldon, Toot Baldon)
- Beckley and Stowood (Beckley, Stowood)
- Berrick Salome (Berrick Prior, Roke, Rokemarsh)
- Binfield Heath
- Bix and Assendon (Bix, Bix Bottom, Lower Assendon, Middle Assendon)
- Brightwell Baldwin
- Britwell Salome
- Checkendon
- Clifton Hampden (Burcot)
- Crowell
- Cuddesdon and Denton (Cuddesdon, Denton)
- Culham
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- Dorchester
- Drayton St. Leonard
- East Hagbourne (Coscote)
- Elsfield
- Eye and Dunsden (Sonning Eye, Dunsden Green, Playhatch)
- Forest Hill with Shotover (Forest Hill, Shotover)
- Goring Heath (Whitchurch Hill, Cray's Pond)
- Great Haseley (Latchford, Little Haseley, North Weston, Rycote)
- Harpsden
- Highmoor (Satwell)
- Holton
- Ipsden
- Kidmore End (Gallowstree Common)
- Lewknor (Postcombe, South Weston)
- Little Milton
- Little Wittenham
- Long Wittenham
- Mapledurham (Trench Green, Chazey Heath)
- Moulsford
- Nettlebed
- Newington (Great Holcombe)
- North Moreton
- Nuffield
- Nuneham Courtenay
- Pishill with Stonor (Pishill, Stonor, Maidensgrove, Russell's Water)
- Pyrton (Clare, Standhill)
- Rotherfield Greys
- Rotherfield Peppard
- Shirburn
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- Stoke Row
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- Swyncombe
- Sydenham (Kingston Stert)
- Tetsworth
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- Towersey
- Warborough (Shillingford)
- Waterperry with Thomley (Waterperry, Thomley)
- Waterstock
- West Hagbourne
- Wheatfield
- Whitchurch-on-Thames
- Wilcote
- Woodeaton
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