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Watlington
Watlington is a market town as well as civil parish concerning 7 miles (11 km) south of Thame in Oxfordshire, near the county's eastern side as well as less than 2 miles (3 kilometres) from its border with Buckinghamshire. The church consists of the districts of Christmas Common, Greenfield as well as Howe Hillside, every one of which are in the Chiltern Hills. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 2,727. The Watlington location is likely to have actually been settled at a very early day, urged by the closeness of the Icknield Way. The toponym implies "negotiation of Waecel's people" as well as indicates line of work from around the sixth century. A 9th-century charter by Æthelred of Mercia documents eight 'manses' or major dwellings in Watlington. The Domesday Book of 1086 determined the area as an agricultural community valued at £ 610. Medieval papers indicate that the modern-day street plan was in presence in the 14th century, as Cochynes-lane (Couching Street), and Brook Street are recorded. There are documents of inns in Watlington because the 15th century. In 1722 the town's market was noted as being hung on a Saturday. By the end of the 18th century the town had 6 inns, all of which were bought up in the next couple of years by a regional developing family, the Haywards. The number of qualified properties enhanced up until late in the 19th century when George Wilkinson, a Methodist got 6 of them as well as closed them down. Today Watlington has 3 hostelries: the Carriers Arms, The Chequers and The Fat Fox Inn. Parliamentarian troops were billeted at Watlington throughout the English Civil Battle. It is assumed that John Hampden remained in the town the night before the Battle of Chalgrove Field. In 1664-- 65 the Town Hall was developed at the expenditure of Thomas Stonor. Its top area was enhanced by Stonor as a grade school for kids, as well as in 1731 Dame Alice Tipping of Ewelme gave an additional endowment to increase the variety of pupils. In 1842 the town Vestry developed a National School, which shared the very same rooms in the Town Hall. In 1843 a National School for girls was built next to St Leonard's church. In 1872 the boys' and girls' colleges were absorbed right into a new Board school, which like its predecessors was associated to the National Society for Promoting Religious Education. In 1927 the college was separated right into different junior as well as elderly institutions. In 1956 a brand-new secondary school-- the Icknield College-- opened up for elderly students as well as the primary school took over the old facilities. The Icknield School is currently Icknield Community College. By 1895 the Town Hall, no more made use of as a school, was in disrepair. In 1907 it was recovered by public subscription. It is a spots at the meeting point of 3 roadways in the centre of the town. Given that 1990 Watlington has been twinned with the town of Mansle in the Poitou-Charentes area of France. The Watlington Hoard, a collection of silver items dating back to the moment of Alfred the Great in the 9th century, was uncovered in Watlington by James Mather, an amateur metal-detectorist, in 2015. The stockpile was consequently excavated, and eventually acquired by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford for £ 1.35 m.
