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 ]