Evenley

Evenley is a village and civil parish just over 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Brackley in West Northamptonshire, England. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 571.

The villages name means 'Level wood/clearing'.

The parish is bounded by the River Great Ouse to the northeast, one of its tributaries to the northwest and on other sides by field boundaries. The parish's northeastern boundary is also part of the county boundary with Buckinghamshire. Its southeastern boundary is also part of the county boundary with Oxfordshire. The parish includes the site of the deserted medieval village of Astwick, about 1 mile (1.6 km) southwest of Evenley village.

The A43 road passes through the western part of the parish and links the village with junction 10 of the M40 motorway 5 miles (8 km) to the south-west.

Evenley Manor House is a mid-17th-century building of three bays, built of ironstone and limestone.

Evenley Hall is a Georgian building of five bays with Ionic columns. It was built in about 1740 for Francis Bassett. It was much altered after being damaged by a fire in 1897. It was a children's home run by the National Children's Home charity from 1941 until 2001.^{[citation needed]}

Evenley had a parish church by 1535, when the Augustinian Huntingdon Priory held the rectory. Rowland Searchfield was rector in 1601.^{[citation needed]}

The mediaeval building was replaced in 1864–65 by the present Church of England parish church of Saint George, designed by the Gothic Revival architect Henry Woodyer. Monuments salvaged from the old church were re-set in the present building, including a more than life-size marble statue of the barrister and judge Sir Creswell Levinz (1627–1701). It has lost its original setting, which was an architectural background with cherubs at his feet. The churchyard includes a large monument to the Pearne family that was erected before 1757.