Fawler
Hamlet in Oxfordshire, England
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::summary Hamlet in Oxfordshire, England ::
::data[format=table title="infobox UK place"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| official_name | Fawler |
| coordinates | |
| population | 86 |
| population_ref | (2001 census) |
| civil_parish | Fawler |
| shire_district | West Oxfordshire |
| shire_county | Oxfordshire |
| region | South East England |
| country | England |
| constituency_westminster | Banbury |
| post_town | Chipping Norton |
| postcode_district | OX7 |
| postcode_area | OX |
| dial_code | 01993 |
| os_grid_reference | SP3717 |
| :: |
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Fawler is a hamlet and civil parish in the valley of the River Evenlode, 1.5 mi southeast of Charlbury in Oxfordshire, England. There are traces of a Roman villa at Oatlands Farm. The manor house was built in 1660. Finstock railway station on the Cotswold Line is closer to Fawler than to Finstock.
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::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/North_Leigh_Roman_Villa_Mosaic_detail.jpg" caption="A [[mosaic]] floor at [[North Leigh Roman Villa]] near Fawler, believed to have given its name to the settlement<ref name="Fimi 2016"/>"] ::
The place-name is recorded from 1205 as Fauflor, derived from Old English fāg flōr, "variegated floor". Authorities including the philologist J. R. R. Tolkien take this to mean a tessellated pavement, identified as the mosaic floor of North Leigh Roman Villa nearby.
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- "Area selected: West Oxfordshire (Non-Metropolitan District)". [[Office for National Statistics]].
- {{harvnb. Sherwood. Pevsner. 1974
- Mills, A. D.. (1993). "A Dictionary of English Place-Names". [[Oxford University Press]].
- Tolkien, J. R. R.. (1926). "[Review]: Introduction to the Survey of Place-Names". The Year's Work in English Studies.
- Fimi, Dimitra. (September 2016). "Tolkien and the Art of Book Reviewing: A Circuitous Road to Middle-earth".
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