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 and also less than 2 miles (3 kilometres) from its boundary with Buckinghamshire. The church includes the hamlets of Christmas Common, Greenfield and Howe Hillside, all 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 actually been worked out at an early date, urged by the closeness of the Icknield Way. The toponym implies "negotiation of Waecel's individuals" and also indicates occupation from around the sixth century. A 9th-century charter by Æthelred of Mercia documents eight 'manses' or significant houses in Watlington. The Domesday Book of 1086 identified the area as an agricultural neighborhood valued at £ 610. Medieval files indicate that the modern-day road strategy was in existence in the 14th century, as Cochynes-lane (Couching Street), as well as Brook Street are recorded. There are records of inns in Watlington because the 15th century. In 1722 the town's market was detailed 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 neighborhood developing family members, the Haywards. The number of certified facilities increased until late in the 19th century when George Wilkinson, a Methodist bought 6 of them and shut them down. Today Watlington has 3 hostelries: the Carriers Arms, The Chequers and The Fat Fox Inn. Parliamentarian soldiers were billeted at Watlington throughout the English Civil War. It is believed that John Hampden stayed in the community the night before the Battle of Chalgrove Field. In 1664-- 65 the Town Hall was constructed at the cost of Thomas Stonor. Its top space was endowed by Stonor as a grammar school for kids, and also in 1731 Dame Alice Tipping of Ewelme provided a more endowment to enhance the variety of pupils. In 1842 the community Vestry developed a National School, which shared the same areas in the Town Hall. In 1843 a National School for women was built next to St Leonard's church. In 1872 the young boys' and girls' schools were soaked up right into a new Board school, which like its predecessors was connected to the National Society for Promoting Religious Education. In 1927 the school was separated into different junior and elderly colleges. In 1956 a new high school-- the Icknield College-- opened for elderly pupils and the primary school took control of the old facilities. The Icknield School is now Icknield Community College. By 1895 the City center, no longer used as a school, was in disrepair. In 1907 it was restored by public membership. It is a spots at the meeting point of three roads in the centre of the community. Since 1990 Watlington has actually been twinned with the community of Mansle in the Poitou-Charentes area of France. The Watlington Hoard, a collection of silver products dating back to the time of Alfred the Great in the 9th century, was uncovered in Watlington by James Mather, an amateur metal-detectorist, in 2015. The hoard was consequently excavated, and also eventually bought by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford for £ 1.35 m.