A History of the County of Oxford

XVI: Henley-on-Thames and Environs: Binfield Hundred, Part 1

AvSimon Townley

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

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Authoritative account of the history of Henley-on-Thames and its neighbouring parishes.Focused on the south-west Chilterns, this volume looks at the riverside market town of Henley-on-Thames, now famous for its annual Royal Regatta, and at the four neighbouring parishes of Bix, Harpsden, Rotherfield Greys and Rotherfield Peppard.Henley began as a planned town, probably in the late twelfth century, and became a major inland port, funnelling grain, wood and (later) malt into London. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries it developed as a coaching centre, and from the nineteenth flourished as a fashionable resort and commuting area, following the belated arrival of the railway and the self-conscious promotion of the Regatta. The adjoining parishes stretch from the river to the Chilterns uplands, comprising a mixed landscape of wood pasture, small hedged closes, and (in the Middle Ages) small open fields. Settlement is characteristically dispersed, and as elsewhere in the Chilterns the balance between crops, grazing and wood exploitation varied over time. The area contains deserted or shrunken settlements, including Bolney and the newly-discovered site of Bix Gibwyn church; its important buildings include Greys Court, established probably in the eleventh century, while Henley itself contains a richness of eighteenth-century brick-built houses alongside medieval timber-framing, several examples of which have recently been dated by dendrochronology.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2011-07-21
Mått:208 x 305 x 30 mm
Vikt:1 742 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Victoria County History
Antal sidor:398
Förlag:Victoria County History
ISBN:9781904356387

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SIMON TOWNLEY has been VCH Oxfordshire county editor since 1996 and is closely involved in Oxfordshire local history, serving on the committees of several local societies. His academic interests focus on settlement, landscape, and religion, particularly (but not exclusively) in the medieval period. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.

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[A]n authoritative, readable and well-presented volume. This work will be of great interest and value to researchers of many different shades, and landscape historians will certainly be among them.

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Henley and the ChilternsHenley Parish and BoroughRural ParishesSources

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