31 Jul
Carpentry
Watlington - OX49
Enquiry from: D W
Start Date: Immediate
Home owner Carpenter required to Fit a cupboard And do some wood work underneath the stairs Time scale 1-3months Contact to Appoint *
Watlington
Watlington is a market town as well as civil parish about 7 miles (11 kilometres) south of Thame in Oxfordshire, near the area's eastern edge and less than 2 miles (3 kilometres) from its boundary with Buckinghamshire. The church consists of the districts of Christmas Common, Greenfield as well as Howe Hill, every one of which are in the Chiltern Hills. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 2,727. The Watlington location is most likely to have actually been cleared up at a very early date, motivated by the distance of the Icknield Way. The toponym implies "settlement of Waecel's individuals" as well as indicates profession from around the sixth century. A 9th-century charter by Æthelred of Mercia documents 8 'manses' or major residences in Watlington. The Domesday Book of 1086 determined the area as an agricultural area valued at £ 610. Medieval records suggest that the modern street plan remained in presence in the 14th century, as Cochynes-lane (Couching Street), and Brook Street are recorded. There are records of inns in Watlington considering that the 15th century. In 1722 the town's market was provided as being held on a Saturday. By the end of the 18th century the town had six inns, every one of which were bought up in the next couple of years by a local developing household, the Haywards. The variety of licensed properties increased up until late in the 19th century when George Wilkinson, a Methodist acquired 6 of them and closed them down. Today Watlington has three pubs: the Carriers Arms, The Chequers and The Fat Fox Inn. Parliamentarian troops were billeted at Watlington throughout the English Civil War. It is thought that John Hampden stayed in the community the evening 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 endowed by Stonor as a grammar school for kids, as well as in 1731 Dame Alice Tipping of Ewelme offered a more endowment to enhance the number of students. In 1842 the community Vestry developed a National School, which shared the very same spaces in the City center. In 1843 a National School for women was developed beside St Leonard's church. In 1872 the young boys' and also 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 and senior colleges. In 1956 a brand-new senior high school-- the Icknield College-- opened for senior students and the primary school took over the old properties. The Icknield School is now Icknield Community College. By 1895 the City center, no longer made use of as a college, remained in disrepair. In 1907 it was restored by public membership. It is a spots at the meeting point of 3 roads in the centre of the community. Considering that 1990 Watlington has actually been twinned with the community of Mansle in the Poitou-Charentes region of France. The Watlington Hoard, a collection of silver items going back to the time of Alfred the Great in the 9th century, was discovered in Watlington by James Mather, an amateur metal-detectorist, in 2015. The heap was ultimately dug deep into, and also at some point purchased by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford for £ 1.35 m.
