Lower Assendon Explained

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.

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  1. http://www.turnpikes.org.uk/English%20turnpike%20table.htm Turnpike Roads in England
  2. http://www.luscombes.co.uk/home.php Luscombes the Golden Ball
  3. Emery, 1974, page 206
  4. Emery, 1974, page 131