Wallingford
Wallingford is a historic market community as well as civil parish located to the south of Oxford on the River Thames in England. Historically located in the region of Berkshire, it was moved to Oxfordshire for the objectives of management in 1974. Wallingford is positioned 12 miles (19 kilometres) north of Reading, 13 miles (21 km) south of Oxford and 11 miles (18 kilometres) north west of Henley-on-Thames. The town's population was 11,600 in the 2011 census. The town has played an important duty in English background starting with the abandonment of Stigand to William the Conqueror in 1066, which caused his taking the throne and the creation of Wallingford Castle. The castle and also the community appreciated royal standing and prospered for much of the Middle Ages. The Treaty of Wallingford, which ended a civil war referred to as The Anarchy between King Stephen as well as Empress Matilda, was signed there. The community after that got in a duration of decrease after the arrival of the Black Death as well as befalling of favour with the Tudor monarchs prior to being contacted once again during the English Civil War. Wallingford held out as the last staying Royalist stronghold in Berkshire before surrendering after a 16-week siege. Fearing that Wallingford Castle could be made use of in a future uprising, Oliver Cromwell bought its devastation. Since then Wallingford has become a market town and centre of neighborhood commerce. At the centre of the community is a huge free market square with the war memorial as well as 17th century arcaded city center to the south, the Corn Exchange theatre to the eastern as well as various shops around the sides. Off the square there are alleyways and also roads with even more stores as well as a number of historic inns. Although it was a village, Wallingford when had 14 churches; currently, there are 3 old churches within the Church of St Mary-le-More and St Leonard, a modern Roman Catholic church, a Quaker Meeting House dating from 1724 and Baptist, Methodist and also area churches.
