Watlington
Watlington is a market town and civil parish regarding 7 miles (11 km) south of Thame in Oxfordshire, near the county's eastern edge and less than 2 miles (3 kilometres) from its boundary with Buckinghamshire. The parish includes the communities of Xmas 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 location is likely to have been worked out at a very early date, motivated by the proximity of the Icknield Way. The toponym means "negotiation of Waecel's individuals" and indicates profession from around the sixth century. A 9th-century charter by Æthelred of Mercia documents 8 'manses' or significant houses in Watlington. The Domesday Book of 1086 identified the location as an agricultural neighborhood valued at £ 610. Medieval records indicate that the modern street plan was in existence in the 14th century, as Cochynes-lane (Couching Street), and Brook Street are recorded. There are records of inns in Watlington given that the 15th century. In 1722 the community's market was noted as being hung on a Saturday. By the end of the 18th century the community had 6 inns, all of which were bought up in the following couple of years by a neighborhood brewing family, the Haywards. The variety of accredited facilities boosted till late in the 19th century when George Wilkinson, a Methodist got 6 of them as well as closed them down. Today Watlington has three hostelries: the Carriers Arms, The Chequers as well as The Fat Fox Inn. Parliamentarian troops were billeted at Watlington during the English Civil Battle. It is believed that John Hampden remained in the town the night prior to the Battle of Chalgrove Field. In 1664-- 65 the City center was developed at the expense of Thomas Stonor. Its top area was endowed by Stonor as a grade school for boys, and also in 1731 Dame Alice Tipping of Ewelme gave a further endowment to enhance the variety of pupils. In 1842 the community Vestry established a National School, which shared the same spaces in the City center. In 1843 a National School for women was developed alongside St Leonard's church. In 1872 the boys' and girls' institutions were taken in into a brand-new Board school, which like its precursors was connected to the National Society for Promoting Religious Education. In 1927 the college was divided into separate junior as well as elderly colleges. In 1956 a new high school-- the Icknield School-- opened for senior pupils as well as the primary school took control of the old facilities. The Icknield School is now Icknield Community College. By 1895 the City center, no longer made use of as an institution, remained in disrepair. In 1907 it was restored by public subscription. It is a landmark at the meeting point of three roadways in the centre of the community. Because 1990 Watlington has been twinned with the community of Mansle in the Poitou-Charentes area of France. The Watlington Hoard, a collection of silver items going back to the moment of Alfred the Great in the 9th century, was discovered in Watlington by James Mather, an amateur metal-detectorist, in 2015. The heap was consequently dug deep into, as well as at some point acquired by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford for £ 1.35 m.
