Fawley Bottom is a small village in south

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, England, north of

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. It is in the

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of Fawley. The artist John Piper and his wife, the librettist

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, were notable long-term residents of Fawley Bottom Farmhouse in the 20th century, from the mid-1930s for the rest of their lives in the 1990s. Frances Spalding, ''John Piper, Myfanwy Piper: Lives in art''.

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, 2009. . Pages 65–66.

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Map
from Buckinghamshire County Council
Painting
of Fawley Bottom Farmhouse by John Piper, 1981
Fawley Bottom — Action Network
from the

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Geograph — Fawley Bottom Lane photograph
Villages in Buckinghamshire Piper family {{Buckinghamshire-geo-stub

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