Watlington
Watlington is a market town and also civil parish about 7 miles (11 km) south of Thame in Oxfordshire, near the county's eastern edge and also less than 2 miles (3 km) from its border with Buckinghamshire. The parish includes the districts of Christmas Common, Greenfield as well as Howe Hillside, all 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 settled at an early date, encouraged by the distance of the Icknield Way. The toponym means "settlement of Waecel's individuals" and also shows line of work 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 determined the location as a farming community valued at £ 610. Medieval files indicate that the modern street plan remained 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 considering 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 community had 6 inns, every one of which were bought up in the following few years by a neighborhood developing family, the Haywards. The variety of accredited properties raised till late in the 19th century when George Wilkinson, a Methodist bought 6 of them and also shut them down. Today Watlington has 3 public houses: the Carriers Arms, The Chequers as well as The Fat Fox Inn. Parliamentarian troops were billeted at Watlington during the English Civil War. It is thought that John Hampden remained in the town the night before the Battle of Chalgrove Field. In 1664-- 65 the Town Hall was developed at the cost of Thomas Stonor. Its upper space was enhanced by Stonor as a grammar school for children, as well as in 1731 Dame Alice Tipping of Ewelme provided an additional endowment to increase the variety of students. In 1842 the community Vestry developed a National School, which shared the exact same spaces in the Town Hall. In 1843 a National Institution for women was developed next to St Leonard's church. In 1872 the boys' as well as girls' institutions were taken in right into a new Board college, which like its precursors was affiliated to the National Society for Promoting Religious Education. In 1927 the school was split into separate junior and senior colleges. In 1956 a new secondary school-- the Icknield College-- opened up for senior students and the primary school took over the old premises. The Icknield School is now Icknield Community College. By 1895 the Town Hall, no more made use of as a school, remained in disrepair. In 1907 it was recovered by public membership. It is a site at the meeting point of 3 roads in the centre of the town. Given that 1990 Watlington has actually been twinned with the town of Mansle in the Poitou-Charentes area of France. The Watlington Hoard, a collection of silver things going back to the moment of Alfred the Great in the 9th century, was rediscovered in Watlington by James Mather, an amateur metal-detectorist, in 2015. The stockpile was consequently dug deep into, and ultimately bought by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford for £ 1.35 m.