Watlington
Watlington is a market town and also civil parish regarding 7 miles (11 kilometres) south of Thame in Oxfordshire, near the county's eastern edge and also less than 2 miles (3 kilometres) from its boundary with Buckinghamshire. The parish consists of the districts of Xmas Common, Greenfield and Howe Hillside, all of which are in the Chiltern Hills. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 2,727. The Watlington location is likely to have actually been resolved at an early date, motivated by the distance of the Icknield Way. The toponym implies "negotiation of Waecel's people" and shows occupation from around the 6th century. A 9th-century charter by Æthelred of Mercia records 8 'manses' or major dwellings in Watlington. The Domesday Book of 1086 determined the area as an agricultural community valued at £ 610. Medieval records indicate that the modern street 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 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 next couple of years by a regional developing family members, the Haywards. The variety of certified facilities raised till late in the 19th century when George Wilkinson, a Methodist got 6 of them and also shut them down. Today Watlington has three pubs: the Carriers Arms, The Chequers and The Fat Fox Inn. Parliamentarian soldiers were billeted at Watlington throughout the English Civil Battle. It is thought that John Hampden remained in the community the night before the Battle of Chalgrove Field. In 1664-- 65 the Town Hall was constructed at the expense of Thomas Stonor. Its upper room was enhanced by Stonor as a grade school for kids, and in 1731 Dame Alice Tipping of Ewelme gave a more endowment to boost the number of students. In 1842 the community Vestry established a National School, which shared the very same rooms in the City center. In 1843 a National College for ladies was built next to St Leonard's church. In 1872 the young boys' and girls' colleges were taken in into a new Board college, which like its precursors was affiliated to the National Society for Promoting Religious Education. In 1927 the institution was split into different junior as well as senior colleges. In 1956 a new secondary school-- the Icknield Institution-- opened up for senior students and also the primary school took control of the old facilities. The Icknield School is currently Icknield Community College. By 1895 the Town Hall, no longer used as a college, was in disrepair. In 1907 it was brought back by public registration. It is a spots at the meeting point of three roadways in the centre of the community. Since 1990 Watlington has actually been twinned with the town of Mansle in the Poitou-Charentes region of France. The Watlington Hoard, a collection of silver things dating back to the moment of Alfred the Great in the 9th century, was found in Watlington by James Mather, an amateur metal-detectorist, in 2015. The hoard was subsequently dug deep into, and also ultimately purchased by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford for £ 1.35 m.
