Codford station, with the stationmaster’s lodge nearby, opened in 1856 at the far south-west corner of the parish, and was linked to the main road
St Peter's church, which stood at the entrance to the medieval village from the west on the north side of the High Street, was made more impressive
Image: Friar Park, Crisp's country retreat in Henley (built c.1889-90)
Image: Norman Avenue, developed by the Henley builder Charles Clements from c.1885.
Image: an 'improved' Kennet or Thames and Severn canal-type barge at Henley bridge (engraving c.1834)
Henley's present town hall, completed in 1901, has had at least three predecessors, only one of which occupied the same site.
After a difficult period in the early-to-mid 19th century, Henley's fortunes revived in the late Victorian and Edwardian period, as the railway and
The present-day Phyllis Court is a stuccoed, Italianate mansion house on Henley's northern edge, built in the early 1840s.
Image: a typical crush of pleasure boats at the 1896 Regatta, viewed from one of house boats which lined the banks for weeks on end.
Photo: Henley British School staff and pupils 1895 (Oxfordshire County Council Photographic Archive)
