Wallingford
Wallingford is a historic market community as well as civil parish situated to the south of Oxford on the River Thames in England. Historically situated in the region of Berkshire, it was transferred to Oxfordshire for the objectives of management in 1974. Wallingford is located 12 miles (19 kilometres) north of Reading, 13 miles (21 km) south of Oxford as well as 11 miles (18 km) north west of Henley-on-Thames. The community's population was 11,600 in the 2011 census. The community has actually played an important duty in English history beginning with the surrender of Stigand to William the Conqueror in 1066, which brought about his taking the throne and also the creation of Wallingford Castle. The castle and the community appreciated imperial status and prospered for much of the Middle Ages. The Treaty of Wallingford, which finished a civil war referred to as The Anarchy in between King Stephen as well as Empress Matilda, was signed there. The community then entered a duration of decline after the arrival of the Black Death and also befalling of favour with the Tudor monarchs prior to being contacted once again throughout the English Civil War. Wallingford held out as the last staying Royalist stronghold in Berkshire before giving up after a 16-week siege. Fearing that Wallingford Castle could be used in a future uprising, Oliver Cromwell ordered its damage. Ever since Wallingford has actually come to be a market town and centre of neighborhood business. At the centre of the town is a large free market square with the battle memorial and 17th century arcaded town hall to the south, the Corn Exchange theatre to the east as well as countless shops around the sides. Off the square there are alleys and also streets with even more stores and a number of historical inns. Although it was a town, Wallingford once had 14 churches; now, there are 3 old churches within the Parish of St Mary-le-More and also St Leonard, a modern-day Roman Catholic church, a Quaker Meeting House dating from 1724 and Baptist, Methodist and also neighborhood churches.
