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The National Trust provides a car park at Watlington Hill on the edge of Christmas Common. The area is a good place to see red kites, which had been extinct in southern England but were successfully reintroduced in 1989. [9] The hamlet has a dog-friendly public house and restaurant, the Fox and Hounds, controlled by W.H. Brakspear & Sons. [10] [11]
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The village's name means 'farm/settlement which has oxen'. [6]The village includes a tree-planted green overlooked by the Fox and Hounds pub. Close to the green is the war memorial to the dead of Exton and Whitwell and to relatives of the Earl of Gainsborough; the names include Tom Cecil Noel MC and Bar and Maurice Dease VC.
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The Mawson Arms/Fox and Hounds is a Grade II* listed public house at 110 Chiswick Lane South. It is at the end of a terrace of five listed houses named Mawson Row in Old Chiswick . This was built in about 1715 for Thomas Mawson, the owner of what became Fuller's Griffin Brewery , [ 1 ] which they adjoin.
The Fox and Pheasant is a pub at 1 Billing Road, Chelsea, London SW10 9UJ. The Fox and Pheasant Public House was built c.1846-8 on land acquired by Edward Gingell from William Allen. Allen was said to have been an unreasonable and litigious man and the odd curved section dividing the frontage of the pub could derive from his wrangling over the ...
Of Fox and Hounds is a 1940 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies directed by Tex Avery. [1] The short was released on December 7, 1940, and introduces Willoughby the Dog . [ 2 ] Avery performed the voice of Willoughby, and Mel Blanc voiced George the Fox and the bear's yells.
Today Watlington has three public houses remaining: The Spire & Spoke (formerly the Carriers Arms), The Chequers [5] and The Fat Fox Inn. [6] Parliamentarian troops were billeted at Watlington during the English Civil War. It is thought that John Hampden stayed in the town the night before the Battle of Chalgrove Field. [7]