Fawler

Fawler is a hamlet and civil parish in the valley of the River Evenlode, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) southeast of Charlbury in Oxfordshire, England.There are traces of a Roman villa at Oatlands Farm.[2] Finstock railway station on the Cotswold Line is closer to Fawler than to Finstock.The place-name is recorded from 1205 as Fauflor, derived from Old English fāg flōr, "variegated floor".[4] Authorities including the philologist J. R. R. Tolkien take this to mean a tessellated pavement, identified as the mosaic floor of North Leigh Roman Villa nearby.
A mosaic floor at North Leigh Roman Villa near Fawler, believed to have given its name to the settlement [ 3 ]
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