Fawler
| Fawler | ||
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| Region | ||
| 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 | ||
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
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
- ^ "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.
- 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
- Sherwood, Jennifer; ISBN 0-14-071045-0.
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