Official Name: | Lower Assendon |
Coordinates: | 51.555°N -0.928°W |
Os Grid Reference: | SU744846 |
Label Position: | left |
Civil Parish: | Bix and Assendon |
Shire District: | South Oxfordshire |
Shire County: | Oxfordshire |
Region: | South East England |
Country: | England |
Constituency Westminster: | Henley |
Post Town: | Henley-on-Thames |
Postcode District: | RG9 |
Postcode Area: | RG |
Dial Code: | 01491 |
Website: | The Parish of Bix & Assendon |
Lower Assendon is a village in the Assendon valley in the Chiltern Hills, about 1.5miles northwest of Henley-on-Thames in South Oxfordshire, England. The road between Henley and Wallingford passes the village. It was made into a turnpike in 1736 and ceased to be a turnpike in 1873.[1] It is now classified the A4130. The village has a public house, The Golden Ball, that is now a gastropub.[2] Henley Park is just east of the village. It was a medieval 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] Fairmile Cemetery, on a hillside southwest of the village, belongs to Henley Town Council.