Rotherfield Peppard
| Rotherfield Peppard | |
| Oxfordshire | |
|---|---|
 All Saints, Rotherfield Peppard | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SU710815 |
| Location: | 51°31’41"N, 0°57’25"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 1,649 (2011) |
| Post town: | Henley-On-Thames |
| Postcode: | RG9 |
| Dialling code: | 01491 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | South Oxfordshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Henley |
| Website: | www.rppc.org.uk |
Rotherfield Peppard is a village in the Chiltern Hills in south-eastern Oxfordshire, a mile south-west of Rotherfield Greys. It is centred three miles west of Henley-on-Thames, four and half miles north of Reading, the latter across the Thames in Berkshire.
The 2011 Census recorded the parish population as 1,649. The area includes Peppard Hill, which is half a mile west of the centre of the village, and adjoins Sonning Common.
Peppard Common is public woodland and meadow in between in a ravine. The far east of the parish is a golf course and the far west is Kingwood Common which is also wooded common land.
The name 'Rotherfield' derives from the Old English hreðerfeld meaning "cattle field". In the middle of the area is the open-to-the-public land, Peppard Common, once used for grazing and which can be used by parishioners for small timber.
Churches
The Church of England parish church, All Saints was Norman, but was almost completely rebuilt in 1874.[1] All Saints' is a Grade II* listed building.[2] The ecclesiastical parish has become part of the united benefice of Rotherfield Peppard, Kidmore End and Sonning Common.
Providence Chapel was founded in 1795. It later became Peppard Congregational Church. It is now Springwater Congregational Church.[3]
History
Blount's Court is an early 19th-century house with neoclassical features, including a 15th-century doorway and 16th-century panelling.[1] It was the childhood home of Francis Knollys, 1st Viscount Knollys and is now the Johnson Matthey Technology Centre.
Wyfold Court was designed by Somers Clarke and built in 1872–78 for the Lancashire cotton magnate Edward Hermon (1822–81).[4] It is a Grade II* listed building.[5]
On film and television
Outside links
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 737.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1369298: Church of All Saints (Grade II* listing)
- ↑ "Springwater Congregational Church". Find a Church. Congregational Federation. http://www.congregational.org.uk/find-a-church/church-finder/268/springwater-congregational-church.
- ↑ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 738.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1180805: Borocourt Hospital (Grade II* listing)
- ↑ "Howard's End". The Castles and Manor Houses of Cinema's Greatest Period Films. Architectural Digest. January 2013. http://www.architecturaldigest.com/ad/set-design/2013/period-movies-set-design-manors-castles-vanity-fair-jane-eyre-slideshow#slide=9.
- ↑ Howard's End at the Internet Movie Database
- Lacey, Paul (1990). Thames Valley the British Years: 1915–1920. Wokingham: Paul Lacey. pp. 18, 26. ISBN 0-9510739-3-1.
- Nikolaus Pevsner: Pevsner Architectural Guides
- A History of the County of Oxford - Volume 16 pp 302-337: Rural Parishes: Rotherfield Peppard (Victoria County History)
