Watlington is a market community as well as civil parish concerning 7 miles (11 km) south of Thame in Oxfordshire, near the region's eastern edge as well as less than 2 miles (3 km) from its boundary with Buckinghamshire. The parish consists of the districts of Christmas Common, Greenfield as well as 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 actually been worked out at a very early day, motivated by the closeness of the Icknield Way. The toponym implies "settlement of Waecel's individuals" and also suggests line of work from around the 6th century. A 9th-century charter by Æthelred of Mercia documents eight 'manses' or significant homes in Watlington. The Domesday Book of 1086 identified the area as a farming neighborhood valued at £ 610. Medieval records indicate that the modern-day street plan was in presence in the 14th century, as Cochynes-lane (Couching Street), as well as Brook Street are recorded. There are documents of inns in Watlington given 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 community had six inns, every one of which were bought up in the next few years by a neighborhood developing household, the Haywards. The number of qualified properties raised till late in the 19th century when George Wilkinson, a Methodist bought 6 of them and closed them down. Today Watlington has three pubs: the Carriers Arms, The Chequers as well as The Fat Fox Inn. Parliamentarian troops were billeted at Watlington throughout the English Civil Battle. It is thought that John Hampden stayed in the town the night prior to the Battle of Chalgrove Field. In 1664-- 65 the Town Hall was developed at the expenditure of Thomas Stonor. Its top area was granted by Stonor as a grammar school for boys, and also in 1731 Dame Alice Tipping of Ewelme gave a more endowment to increase the number of pupils. In 1842 the community Vestry established a National School, which shared the exact same rooms in the Town Hall. In 1843 a National College for women was built next to St Leonard's church. In 1872 the young boys' as well as girls' schools were taken in right into a new Board college, which like its precursors was associated to the National Society for Promoting Religious Education. In 1927 the institution was separated right into separate junior and elderly schools. In 1956 a new high school-- the Icknield School-- opened up for elderly pupils as well as the primary school took over the old facilities. The Icknield School is currently Icknield Community College. By 1895 the City center, no longer used as a school, was in disrepair. In 1907 it was brought back by public subscription. It is a spots at the meeting point of three roadways in the centre of the community. Considering 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 uncovered in Watlington by James Mather, an amateur metal-detectorist, in 2015. The heap was subsequently excavated, and at some point purchased by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford for £ 1.35 m.