Watlington is a market community and also civil parish concerning 7 miles (11 km) south of Thame in Oxfordshire, near the region's eastern side as well as less than 2 miles (3 kilometres) from its boundary with Buckinghamshire. The parish consists of the communities of Christmas Common, Greenfield and Howe Hill, every one of which are in the Chiltern Hills. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 2,727. The Watlington area is most likely to have been cleared up at an early day, encouraged by the closeness of the Icknield Way. The toponym implies "negotiation of Waecel's people" and also suggests occupation from around the 6th century. A 9th-century charter by Æthelred of Mercia records eight 'manses' or major dwellings in Watlington. The Domesday Book of 1086 identified the location as a farming community valued at £ 610. Medieval papers suggest that the modern-day road plan remained in existence in the 14th century, as Cochynes-lane (Couching Street), and also Brook Street are recorded. There are records of inns in Watlington given that the 15th century. In 1722 the community's market was detailed as being hung on a Saturday. By the end of the 18th century the town had 6 inns, every one of which were bought up in the next few years by a regional developing household, the Haywards. The number of licensed properties enhanced up until late in the 19th century when George Wilkinson, a Methodist acquired 6 of them and shut them down. Today Watlington has three public houses: 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 believed that John Hampden remained in the town the evening before the Battle of Chalgrove Field. In 1664-- 65 the City center was developed at the cost of Thomas Stonor. Its upper space was enhanced by Stonor as a grammar school for young boys, and in 1731 Dame Alice Tipping of Ewelme provided an additional endowment to raise the number of students. In 1842 the community Vestry established a National School, which shared the exact same spaces in the City center. In 1843 a National Institution for girls was constructed next to St Leonard's church. In 1872 the young boys' and also girls' colleges were soaked up into a brand-new Board school, which like its predecessors was connected to the National Society for Promoting Religious Education. In 1927 the institution was divided right into different junior as well as senior schools. In 1956 a new senior high school-- the Icknield School-- opened up for senior students as well as the primary school took over the old premises. 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 brought back by public subscription. It is a spots at the meeting point of three roadways in the centre of the town. Considering that 1990 Watlington has been twinned with the town of Mansle in the Poitou-Charentes region of France. The Watlington Hoard, a collection of silver products going 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 consequently dug deep into, and eventually acquired by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford for £ 1.35 m.
