Henley on Thames Palace (The Gatehouse Record)

In the civil parish of Henley on Thames.
In the historic county of Oxfordshire.
Modern Authority of Oxfordshire.
1974 county of Oxfordshire.
Medieval County of Oxfordshire.

OS Map Grid Reference: SU762826
Latitude 51.53782° Longitude -0.90193°

Henley on Thames Palace has been described as a Palace although is doubtful that it was such.

There are no visible remains.

Comments

Henry II was certainly capable of building impressive and expensive buildings used for very short periods (cf. St Mary's Guildhall, Lincoln used for just 2 days.) The lack of record for expenditure on buildings does probably mean nothing was built, although it may be the records are incomplete or the building expenditure is obscured in other records. The location of the site for which the sheriff was claiming is not known but it would probably be near the parish church, at the given map reference and now lost under the town.

Sources of information, references and further reading

Further information may be available from the holder of the county Historic Environment Record.

Books
- Colvin, H.M., Brown, R.Allen and Taylor, A.J., 1963, The history of the King's Works Vol. 2: the Middle Ages (London: HMSO) p. 960
Primary (Medieval documents or transcriptions of such documents - This section is far from complete and the secondary sources should be consulted for full references.)
- 1907, The Great Roll of the Pipe for the twenty-fifth year of the reign of King Henry II A.D. 1178-1179 (Pipe Roll Society 28) p. 95 etc. online copy

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