Watlington
Watlington is a market community and also civil parish concerning 7 miles (11 kilometres) south of Thame in Oxfordshire, near the area's eastern edge as well as less than 2 miles (3 kilometres) from its border with Buckinghamshire. The church includes the hamlets 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 location is most likely to have been resolved at an early day, urged by the closeness of the Icknield Way. The toponym means "negotiation of Waecel's individuals" and suggests profession from around the 6th century. A 9th-century charter by Æthelred of Mercia records eight 'manses' or significant houses in Watlington. The Domesday Book of 1086 identified the location as an agricultural neighborhood valued at £ 610. Medieval records suggest 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 provided as being hung on a Saturday. By the end of the 18th century the community had six inns, all of which were bought up in the next few years by a local developing family members, the Haywards. The variety of qualified properties increased up until late in the 19th century when George Wilkinson, a Methodist got six of them as well as closed them down. Today Watlington has 3 pubs: the Carriers Arms, The Chequers and The Fat Fox Inn. Parliamentarian soldiers were billeted at Watlington during the English Civil Battle. It is believed that John Hampden stayed in the community the evening prior to the Battle of Chalgrove Field. In 1664-- 65 the City center was developed at the cost of Thomas Stonor. Its upper area was granted by Stonor as a grammar school for young boys, and also in 1731 Dame Alice Tipping of Ewelme gave a more endowment to enhance the variety of pupils. In 1842 the town Vestry developed a National School, which shared the same rooms in the Town Hall. In 1843 a National College for women was constructed alongside St Leonard's church. In 1872 the young boys' and also girls' schools were taken in right into a brand-new Board school, which like its precursors was affiliated to the National Society for Promoting Religious Education. In 1927 the college was divided right into separate junior and also elderly colleges. In 1956 a brand-new secondary school-- the Icknield College-- opened for elderly pupils and also the primary school took control of the old premises. The Icknield School is now Icknield Community College. By 1895 the Town Hall, no longer made use of as a college, remained in disrepair. In 1907 it was recovered by public membership. It is a landmark at the meeting point of three roads in the centre of the community. Since 1990 Watlington has actually been twinned with the community of Mansle in the Poitou-Charentes region of France. The Watlington Hoard, a collection of silver things going back to the time of Alfred the Great in the 9th century, was discovered in Watlington by James Mather, an amateur metal-detectorist, in 2015. The stockpile was subsequently excavated, and at some point purchased by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford for £ 1.35 m.
