Fawley, Buckinghamshire

Description
Fawley, a parish in Buckinghamshire, contiguous to Oxfordshire, and near the river Thames, 3 miles NNW from Henley-upon-Thames station on the G.W.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Henley-upon-Thames. Acreage, 2213; population, 266. The manor belonged to the Whitelocks, one of whom wrote " The Memorials." Fawley Court is the seat of the Mackenzie family, was built by Sir Christopher Wren in 1684, is a large and handsome structure amid fine grounds, and occupies the site of a previous mansion which was garrisoned in 1642, for Charles I. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; gross yearly value, £394 with residence. The church, which is a building of flint and stone in the Norman style, contains some interesting memorials of the Whitelocks.