Rotherfield Greys

Rotherfield Greys is a village and civil parish in the Chiltern Hills in South Oxfordshire. It is 2 miles (3 km) west of Henley-on-Thames and just over 1 mile (1.6 km) east of Rotherfield Peppard (locally known as Peppard). It is linked by a near-straight minor road to Henley.

For the place with a similar name in East Sussex, see Rotherfield.

Rotherfield Greys

St Nicholas' parish church
Rotherfield Greys
Location within Oxfordshire
Area7.73 km2 (2.98 sq mi)
Population1,649 (2011 census)[1]
• Density213/km2 (550/sq mi)
OS grid referenceSU725825
Civil parish
  • Rotherfield Greys
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townHenley-on-Thames
Postcode districtRG9
Dialling code01491
PoliceThames Valley
FireOxfordshire
AmbulanceSouth Central
UK Parliament

History
Ruins of Rotherfield Greys Castle

The Domesday Book of 1086 mentions Rotherfield Greys under the ownership of the Norman knight Anchetil de Greye and in a period when the county was administered in hundreds, in Binfield Hundred.[2] Rotherfield derives from the Old English redrefeld meaning "cattle lands". Around 1347, a castle was built at Rotherfield Greys; it is now in ruins. The parish church includes the 16th-century Knollys Chapel, which houses an ornate tomb of the Knollys family. This includes effigies of Sir Francis Knollys and his wife, who was lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth I.

Amenities
The Maltsters Arms

The Church of England parish church of Saint Nicholas[3] is Norman and was restored in 1865.[4]

The village has a public house, The Maltsters Arms, which is controlled by W.H. Brakspear & Sons.[5]

Architecture

In the parish is Greys Court, whose predecessor was the manor house of the Grey family. It is owned and maintained by the National Trust and its Dower House is likewise in the top category of listed building, Grade I.[6] As to other buildings, ruins and monuments 31 are listed in the parish for historic or architectural merit, most in the Grade II starting category.

References
  1. "Area: Rotherfield Greys CP (Parish): Parish Headcounts". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 19 March 2010.
  2. Open Domesday Online: Rotherfield Greys
  3. St. Nicholas' Church, Rotherfield Greys
  4. Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 734.
  5. The Maltsters Arms
  6. Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1181202)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 1 May 2016.

Sources and further reading
  • Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Oxfordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 734–737. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Townley, Simon C, ed. (2011). A History of the County of Oxford, Volume 16: Binfield Hundred (Part One): Henley-on-Thames and Environs. Victoria County History. Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer. ISBN 978-1-904356-38-7.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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