Fawley Bottom is a small village in south
Buckinghamshire
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, England, north of
Henley-on-Thames
Henley-on-Thames ( ) is a town status in the United Kingdom, town and Civil parishes in England, civil parish on the River Thames, in the South Oxfordshire district, in Oxfordshire, England, northeast of Reading, Berkshire, Reading, west of M ...
.
It is in the
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...
of
Fawley.
The artist
John Piper and his wife, the librettist
Myfanwy Piper
Mary Myfanwy Piper (; Welsh: ; 28 March 1911 – 18 January 1997) was a British art critic and opera librettist. She was the founder of the periodical ''Axis'', which was devoted to abstract art. She collaborated with the composer Benjamin Britt ...
, 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''. ]Oxford University Press
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, 2009. . Pages 65–66.
See also
*
Fawley village
*
Fawley Court
References
External links
Mapfrom
Buckinghamshire County Council
Paintingof Fawley Bottom Farmhouse by John Piper, 1981
Fawley Bottom — Action Networkfrom the
BBC
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Geograph — Fawley Bottom Lane photograph
Villages in Buckinghamshire
Piper family
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