Fawler

Fawler is a hamlet and civil parish in the valley of the River Evenlode, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) 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.

Place-name

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.

References

Sources

• Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Oxfordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 605. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.