Lower Assendon
| Lower Assendon | |
| Oxfordshire | |
|---|---|
| |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SU744846 |
| Location: | 51°33’18"N, -0°55’41"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Henley-on-Thames |
| Postcode: | RG9 |
| Dialling code: | 01491 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | South Oxfordshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Henley |
| Website: | bixandassendon.org.uk |
Lower Assendon is a village in Oxfordshire, in the Assendon valley in the Chiltern Hills, about a mile and a half north-west of Henley-on-Thames. Here there is a fold in the hills which runs down from Assendon to the Thames at Henley, while in the other direction it carries the road north-west from Henley over the edge of the Chilterns to meet the Thames again upstream where its great loop around the hills begins, opposite Wallingford, Berkshire.
This main road was made into a turnpike in 1736 and ceased to be a turnpike in 1873.[1] It is now the A4130.
The village has one public house, The Golden Ball, that is now a 'gastropub'.[2]
Henley Park is just east of the village. It was a mediæval 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]
See also
- Middle Assendon
- Stonor (at Upper Assendon)
Outside links
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References
- ↑ Turnpike Roads in England
- ↑ Luscombes the Golden Ball
- ↑ Emery, 1974, page 206
- ↑ Emery, 1974, page 131
- Emery, Frank (1974). The Oxfordshire Landscape. The Making of the English Landscape. London: Hodder & Stoughton. pp. 131, 206. ISBN 0-340-04301-6. https://archive.org/details/oxfordshirelands0000emer.