Henley, Oxfordshire
Henley-on-Thames ( ) is a town and civil parish on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, England, northeast of Reading, west of Maidenhead, southeast of Oxford and west of London (by road), near the tripoint of Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire. The population at the 2011 Census was 11,619. History Henley does not appear in Domesday Book of 1086; often it is mistaken for ''Henlei'' in the book which is in Surrey. There is archaeological evidence of people residing in Henley since the second century as part of the Romano-British period. The first record of Henley as a substantial settlement is from 1179, when it is recorded that King Henry II "had bought land for the making of buildings". King John granted the manor of Benson and the town and manor of Henley to Robert Harcourt in 1199. A church at Henley is first mentioned in 1204. In 1205 the town received a tax for street paving, and in 1234 the bridge is first mentioned. In 1278 Henley is described as a ham ...
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Henley Town Hall
} Henley Town Hall is a municipal structure in the Market Place in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England. The town hall, which is the headquarters of Henley Town Council, is a Grade II* listed building. History The first municipal building in the town was a medieval guildhall on the south side of Hart Street which was completed in the late 13th century. This was replaced by a second structure in 1492: this building, which was a timber-framed building in the Middle Row of the Market Place just to the west of the junction with Bell Street and Duke Street, was arcaded on the ground floor, so that markets could be held, and it had an assembly room on the first floor. A third and more substantial town hall was designed in the Neoclassical architecture, neoclassical style by local architect, Henry Bradshaw, with some ideas from Field Marshal Henry Seymour Conway, Henry Conway: the building, which featured a full-height portico, was built in red brick on a site to the west of the sec ...
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