Watlington is a market community as well as civil parish concerning 7 miles (11 km) south of Thame in Oxfordshire, near the region's eastern side and 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, every one of which remain in the Chiltern Hills. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 2,727. The Watlington location is most likely to have actually been worked out at an early date, urged by the distance of the Icknield Way. The toponym implies "settlement of Waecel's people" and suggests profession from around the sixth century. A 9th-century charter by Æthelred of Mercia records eight 'manses' or significant dwellings in Watlington. The Domesday Book of 1086 identified the location as an agricultural area valued at £ 610. Medieval documents show that the contemporary street strategy remained in presence in the 14th century, as Cochynes-lane (Couching Street), and Brook Street are recorded. There are documents of inns in Watlington since the 15th century. In 1722 the community's market was listed as being hung on a Saturday. By the end of the 18th century the town had six inns, all of which were bought up in the next couple of years by a regional brewing family members, the Haywards. The variety of qualified properties boosted until late in the 19th century when George Wilkinson, a Methodist purchased 6 of them as well as shut them down. Today Watlington has 3 pubs: the Carriers Arms, The Chequers and The Fat Fox Inn. Parliamentarian troops were billeted at Watlington throughout the English Civil War. It is believed that John Hampden remained in the town the night before the Battle of Chalgrove Field. In 1664-- 65 the City center was constructed at the cost of Thomas Stonor. Its upper room was enhanced by Stonor as a grade school for boys, and also in 1731 Dame Alice Tipping of Ewelme gave a further endowment to boost the variety of pupils. In 1842 the community Vestry developed a National School, which shared the exact same rooms in the City center. In 1843 a National School for ladies was constructed next to St Leonard's church. In 1872 the young boys' and also girls' institutions were absorbed into a new Board institution, which like its precursors was affiliated to the National Society for Promoting Religious Education. In 1927 the college was separated into separate junior and elderly institutions. In 1956 a brand-new senior high school-- the Icknield Institution-- opened for senior students and the primary school took control of the old properties. The Icknield School is now Icknield Community College. By 1895 the City center, no longer used as a college, remained in disrepair. In 1907 it was brought back by public membership. It is a spots at the meeting point of 3 roadways in the centre of the town. Given that 1990 Watlington has actually been twinned with the community of Mansle in the Poitou-Charentes area of France. The Watlington Hoard, a collection of silver things dating back to the time of Alfred the Great in the 9th century, was uncovered in Watlington by James Mather, an amateur metal-detectorist, in 2015. The stockpile was consequently excavated, and at some point purchased by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford for £ 1.35 m.