Watlington
Watlington is a market community and also civil parish regarding 7 miles (11 km) south of Thame in Oxfordshire, near the region's eastern edge and also less than 2 miles (3 kilometres) from its boundary with Buckinghamshire. The parish includes the communities of Christmas Common, Greenfield and Howe Hill, every one of which remain in the Chiltern Hills. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 2,727. The Watlington area is most likely to have been settled at a very early date, motivated by the closeness of the Icknield Way. The toponym indicates "settlement of Waecel's people" as well as indicates occupation from around the sixth century. A 9th-century charter by Æthelred of Mercia documents eight 'manses' or major houses in Watlington. The Domesday Book of 1086 determined the location as an agricultural community valued at £ 610. Medieval documents indicate that the contemporary street plan was in existence in the 14th century, as Cochynes-lane (Couching Street), and also Brook Street are recorded. There are records of inns in Watlington since the 15th century. In 1722 the town's market was noted as being held on a Saturday. By the end of the 18th century the town had 6 inns, all of which were bought up in the following few years by a neighborhood developing household, the Haywards. The number of certified properties increased up until late in the 19th century when George Wilkinson, a Methodist got 6 of them as well as shut them down. Today Watlington has three public houses: the Carriers Arms, The Chequers as well as The Fat Fox Inn. Parliamentarian soldiers were billeted at Watlington during the English Civil Battle. It is thought that John Hampden stayed in the community the night prior to the Battle of Chalgrove Field. In 1664-- 65 the Town Hall was built at the cost of Thomas Stonor. Its top room was enhanced by Stonor as a grade school for children, and in 1731 Dame Alice Tipping of Ewelme provided an additional endowment to enhance the number of students. In 1842 the community Vestry developed a National School, which shared the very same spaces in the Town Hall. In 1843 a National College for women was developed next to St Leonard's church. In 1872 the boys' and girls' schools were absorbed right into a brand-new Board institution, which like its predecessors was associated to the National Society for Promoting Religious Education. In 1927 the institution was divided right into different junior and elderly institutions. In 1956 a brand-new high school-- the Icknield College-- opened up for elderly students as well as the primary school took over the old properties. The Icknield School is now Icknield Community College. By 1895 the Town Hall, no longer made use of as an institution, remained in disrepair. In 1907 it was recovered by public registration. It is a spots at the meeting point of 3 roads in the centre of the community. 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 rediscovered in Watlington by James Mather, an amateur metal-detectorist, in 2015. The stockpile was ultimately excavated, and also ultimately acquired by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford for £ 1.35 m.
