Editing Henley-on-Thames (section)

==History==
<includeonly>Henley does not appear in [[Domesday Book]] of 1086; often it is mistaken for ''Henlei'' in the book which is in Surrey.</includeonly>
There is archaeological evidence of people residing in Henley since the second century as part of the [[Romano-British]] period.<ref>{{cite web | title=Henley:Origin and Development of the Town | url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol16/pp31-49}}</ref> The first record of Henley as a substantial settlement is from 1179, when it is recorded that [[Henry II of England|King Henry II]] "had bought land for the making of buildings". King [[John of England|John]] granted the manor of [[Benson, Oxfordshire|Benson]] and the town and manor of Henley to Robert Harcourt in 1199.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}} A church at Henley is first mentioned in 1204. In 1205 the town received a tax for street paving, and in 1234 the bridge is first mentioned. In 1278 Henley is described as a hamlet of Benson with a [[chapel]]. The street plan was probably established by the end of the 13th century. As a [[demesne]] of the crown it was granted in 1337 to John de Molyns, whose family held it for about 250 years.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}

The existing Thursday market, it is believed, was granted by a charter of King [[John of England|John]]. A market was certainly in existence by 1269; however, the jurors of the [[assize]] of 1284 said that they did not know by what warrant the [[Earl of Cornwall]] held a market and fair in the town of Henley. The existing [[Corpus Christi (feast)|Corpus Christi]] fair was granted by a charter of [[Henry VI of England|Henry VI]]. During the [[Black Death]] pandemic that swept through England in the 14th century, Henley lost 60% of its population.<ref name=hor>{{cite book |last=Hylton |first=Stuart |title=A History of Reading |publisher=[[The History Press|Phillimore & Co Ltd]] |year=2007 |isbn=978-1-86077-458-4 |page=34}}</ref> A variation on its name can be seen as "Henley up a Tamys" in 1485.<ref>{{cite web | title=Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; CP 40/892 | url=http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT3/R3/CP40no892/aCP40no892fronts/IMG_0051.htm | work=Anglo-American Legal Tradition | publisher=[[University of Houston]] | access-date=5 April 2020 | archive-date=29 February 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200229181919/http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT3/R3/CP40no892/aCP40no892fronts/IMG_0051.htm | url-status=live }}</ref> 

By the beginning of the 16th century, the town extended along the west bank of the [[Thames]] from Friday Street in the south to the [[Manor house|Manor]], now [[Phyllis Court]], in the north and took in Hart Street and New Street. To the west, it included Bell Street and the Market Place.

Henley suffered at the hands of both parties in the [[English Civil War|Civil War]]. Later, [[William III of England|William III]] rested here on his march to [[London]] in 1688, at the nearby recently rebuilt [[Fawley Court]], and received a deputation from the [[House of Lords|Lords]]. The town's period of prosperity in the 17th and 18th centuries was due to manufactures of glass and malt, and trade in corn and wool. Henley-on-Thames supplied London with timber and grain. A [[workhouse]] to accommodate 150 people was built at West Hill in Henley in 1790, and was later enlarged to accommodate 250 as the Henley [[Poor Law Union]] workhouse.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Henley/ |work=The Workhouse |title=Henley, Oxfordshire |access-date=17 July 2013 |archive-date=12 July 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130712032839/http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Henley/ |url-status=live }}</ref>