Lower Assendon

Lower Assendon is a village in the Assendon valley in the Chiltern Hills, about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) northwest of Henley-on-Thames in South Oxfordshire, England.

Lower Assendon
Lower Assendon
Location within Oxfordshire
OS grid referenceSU744846
Civil parish
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townHenley-on-Thames
Postcode districtRG9
Dialling code01491
PoliceThames Valley
FireOxfordshire
AmbulanceSouth Central
UK Parliament
WebsiteThe Parish of Bix & Assendon

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.

References
  1. Turnpike Roads in England
  2. Luscombes the Golden Ball
  3. Emery, 1974, page 206
  4. Emery, 1974, page 131

Sources
  • Emery, Frank (1974). The Oxfordshire Landscape. The Making of the English Landscape. London: Hodder & Stoughton. pp. 131, 206. ISBN 0-340-04301-6.

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