Fawley Bottom is a small village in south
Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire (), abbreviated Bucks, is a ceremonial county in South East England that borders Greater London to the south-east, Berkshire to the south, Oxfordshire to the west, Northamptonshire to the north, Bedfordshire to the north-ea ...
, England, north of
Henley-on-Thames
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 Buc ...
.
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 below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...
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.
Biography
Mary Myfanwy Evans was born on 28 March 1911 into a Welsh family in London. Her father was a chemist in Hampstead, nor ...
, 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
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Fawley village
*
Fawley Court
References
External links
Mapfrom
Buckinghamshire County Council
Paintingof Fawley Bottom Farmhouse by John Piper, 1981
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Geograph — Fawley Bottom Lane photograph
Villages in Buckinghamshire
Piper family
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