Wallingford
Wallingford is a historical market town as well as civil parish located to the south of Oxford on the River Thames in England. Historically located in the county of Berkshire, it was transferred to Oxfordshire for the purposes of administration in 1974. Wallingford is located 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 community's population was 11,600 in the 2011 census. The town has played an important function in English history beginning with the abandonment of Stigand to William the Conqueror in 1066, which resulted in his taking the throne and the production of Wallingford Castle. The castle and also the community appreciated royal condition as well as grew for much of the Middle Ages. The Treaty of Wallingford, which finished a civil war referred to as The Anarchy between King Stephen and also Empress Matilda, was signed there. The town after that entered a duration of decrease after the arrival of the Black Death and befalling of favour with the Tudor monarchs before being called on once again during the English Civil War. Wallingford held up as the last remaining 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 purchased its destruction. Ever since Wallingford has actually come to be a market town and centre of neighborhood business. At the centre of the community is a big open market square with the war memorial and 17th century arcaded city center to the south, the Corn Exchange theatre to the eastern and also numerous look around the sides. Off the square there are alleyways as well as roads with more stores and also a number of historical inns. Although it was a town, Wallingford when had 14 churches; currently, there are three ancient churches within the Parish of St Mary-le-More and St Leonard, a contemporary Roman Catholic church, a Quaker Meeting House dating from 1724 and also Baptist, Methodist and neighborhood churches.