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Badgemore is a former civil parish, now in the parishes of Bix and Assendon and Rotherfield Greys, in the South Oxfordshire district, in Oxfordshire, England, west of Henley-on-Thames.
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William the Conqueror gave Henry de Ferrers a considerable number of manors including Badgemore in Oxfordshire.[1] In the early 19th century the house passed to a Mr Charles Lane[2] and later that century it was acquired by a Mr Richard Ovey, who was High Sheriff of Oxfordshire.[3] In 1884 Ovey commissioned John Norton to re-model and enlarge the house.[4]
Ovey leased Badgemore to Admiral of the Fleet the Earl of Clanwilliam who received a visit from Carola, Queen of Saxony there in April 1905.[5] Clanwilliam died at Badgemore in August 1907.[6] The house is now a serviced office facility within the grounds of a golf club.[7]
On 31 December 1894 Badgemore became a separate civil parish, being formed from part of Henley on Thames, on 1 April 1952 the parish was abolished and merged with Bix and Rotherfield Greys.[8] In 1951 the parish had a population of 172.[9]
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