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For the hamlet in Kingston Lisle parish, see Fawler, Vale of White Horse.

Human settlement in England
Fawler
Fawler is located in OxfordshireFawlerFawlerLocation within Oxfordshire
Population86 (2001 census)
OS grid referenceSP3717
Civil parish
  • Fawler
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townChipping Norton
Postcode districtOX7
Dialling code01993
PoliceThames Valley
FireOxfordshire
AmbulanceSouth Central
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51°51′22″N 1°27′58″W / 51.856°N 1.466°W / 51.856; -1.466

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. The manor house was built in 1660. Finstock railway station on the Cotswold Line is closer to Fawler than to Finstock.

Place-name

A mosaic floor at North Leigh Roman Villa near Fawler, believed to have given its name to the settlement

The place-name is recorded from 1205 as Fauflor, derived from Old English fāg flōr, "variegated floor". 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.

References

  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.
  2. ^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 605
  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) . A Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford University Press. p. 129. ISBN 978-0-19-283131-6.
  5. Tolkien, J. R. R. (1926). ": Introduction to the Survey of Place-Names". The Year's Work in English Studies (5): 64.

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