Rotherfield Peppard

Rotherfield Peppard is a village and civil parish in the Chiltern Hills in South Oxfordshire. It is centred 3mi west of Henley-on-Thames, 4 + 1 /2mi north of Reading, Berkshire and southwest of Rotherfield Greys. The 2011 Census recorded the parish population as 1, 649. The area includes Peppard Hill, which is 1 /2mi west of the centre of the village and adjoins Sonning Common. Peppard Common is public woodland and meadow in between in a ravine. The far east of the parish is a golf course and the far west is Kingswood Common which is also wooded common land. ToponymRotherfield derives from the Old English redrefeld meaning "cattle lands". In the middle of the area is the open-to-the-public land, Peppard Common, once used for grazing and which can be used by parishioners for small timber. Church and chapelThe Church of England parish church of All Saints was Norman, but was almost completely rebuilt in 1874. All Saints' is a Grade II* listed building. The ecclesiastical parish has become part of the united benefice of Rotherfield Peppard, Kidmore End and Sonning Common.

Rotherfield Peppard is a village and civil parish in the Chiltern Hills in South Oxfordshire. It is centred 3mi west of Henley-on-Thames, 4 + 1 /2mi north of Reading, Berkshire and southwest of Rotherfield Greys. The 2011 Census recorded the parish population as 1, 649. The area includes Peppard Hill, which is 1 /2mi west of the centre of the village and adjoins Sonning Common. Peppard Common is public woodland and meadow in between in a ravine. The far east of the parish is a golf course and the far west is Kingswood Common which is also wooded common land. ToponymRotherfield derives from the Old English redrefeld meaning "cattle lands". In the middle of the area is the open-to-the-public land, Peppard Common, once used for grazing and which can be used by parishioners for small timber. Church and chapelThe Church of England parish church of All Saints was Norman, but was almost completely rebuilt in 1874. All Saints' is a Grade II* listed building. The ecclesiastical parish has become part of the united benefice of Rotherfield Peppard, Kidmore End and Sonning Common.