Fawler

Fawler
Fawler
	Fawler Location within Oxfordshire
Population	86 (2001 census)
OS grid reference	SP3717
Civil parish	Fawler;
District	West Oxfordshire;
Shire county	Oxfordshire;
Region	South East;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Chipping Norton
Postcode district	OX7
Dialling code	01993
Police	Thames Valley
Fire	Oxfordshire
Ambulance	South Central
UK Parliament	Witney;
	List of places UK England Oxfordshire 51°51′22″N 1°27′58″W / 51.856°N 1.466°W

Fawler is a hamlet and civil parish in the valley of the River Evenlode, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) southeast of Charlbury in Oxfordshire, England. There are traces of a Roman villa at Oatlands Farm.^[2] The manor house was built in 1660.^[2] Finstock railway station on the Cotswold Line is closer to Fawler than to Finstock.

Place-name[edit]

The place-name is recorded from 1205 as Fauflor, derived from Old English fāg flōr, "variegated floor".^[4] Authorities including the philologist J. R. R. Tolkien take this to mean a tessellated pavement, identified as the mosaic floor of North Leigh Roman Villa nearby.^[5]^[3]

References[edit]

^ "Area selected: West Oxfordshire (Non-Metropolitan District)". Neighbourhood Statistics: Full Dataset View. Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 29 June 2011. Retrieved 11 January 2011.
^ ^a ^b Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 605
^ ^a ^b Fimi, Dimitra (September 2016). Tolkien and the Art of Book Reviewing: A Circuitous Road to Middle-earth. Oxonmoot. Retrieved 2 September 2023.
^ Mills, A. D. (1993) [1991]. A Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford University Press. p. 129. ISBN 978-0-19-283131-6.
^ Tolkien, J. R. R. (1926). "[Review]: Introduction to the Survey of Place-Names". The Year's Work in English Studies (5): 64.

Sources[edit]

Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Oxfordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 605. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.

[1] "Area selected: West Oxfordshire (Non-Metropolitan District)". Neighbourhood Statistics: Full Dataset View. Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 29 June 2011. Retrieved 11 January 2011.

[Sherwood605-2] Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 605

[Fimi_2016-3] Fimi, Dimitra (September 2016). Tolkien and the Art of Book Reviewing: A Circuitous Road to Middle-earth. Oxonmoot. Retrieved 2 September 2023.

[4] Mills, A. D. (1993) [1991]. A Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford University Press. p. 129. ISBN 978-0-19-283131-6.

[5] Tolkien, J. R. R. (1926). "[Review]: Introduction to the Survey of Place-Names". The Year's Work in English Studies (5): 64.

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Large villages	Aston, Cote, Shifford and Chimney Aston Cote Shifford Chimney Bampton Lower Haddon Weald Brize Norton Ducklington Enstone Church Enstone Neat Enstone Chalford Cleveley Fulwell Gagingwell Lidstone Radford Eynsham Barnard Gate Freeland Hailey New Yatt Hanborough Church Hanborough Long Hanborough Milton-under-Wychwood Minster Lovell North Leigh East End Wilcote Shipton-under-Wychwood Standlake Brighthampton Steeple Barton Middle Barton Stonesfield
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