FAWLEY, a parish in the district of Henley and county of Buckingham; contiguous to Oxfordshire, and near the river Thames, 3 miles NNW of Henley-upon-Thames r. station. Post town, Henley-upon-Thames. Acres, 2, 216. Real property, £2, 903. Pop., 272. Houses, 51. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged to the Whitelocks; one of whom wrote "the Memorials." Fawley Court is the seat of Edw. Mackenzie, Esq.; 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. Value, £397.* Patron, W. P. W. Freeman, Esq. The church contains monuments of the Whitelocks, and is tolerable.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))