Watlington
Watlington is a market town and also civil parish concerning 7 miles (11 kilometres) south of Thame in Oxfordshire, near the region's eastern edge and also less than 2 miles (3 kilometres) from its boundary with Buckinghamshire. The parish includes the districts of Xmas Common, Greenfield and Howe Hill, all of which are in the Chiltern Hills. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 2,727. The Watlington location is likely to have been resolved at a very early day, 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 6th century. A 9th-century charter by Æthelred of Mercia documents 8 'manses' or major residences in Watlington. The Domesday Book of 1086 determined the area as an agricultural community valued at £ 610. Medieval papers suggest that the contemporary street strategy remained in presence in the 14th century, as Cochynes-lane (Couching Street), and also Brook Street are recorded. There are documents of inns in Watlington given that the 15th century. In 1722 the town's market was noted as being hung on a Saturday. By the end of the 18th century the town had 6 inns, all of which were bought up in the next couple of years by a local brewing household, the Haywards. The number of licensed properties boosted up until late in the 19th century when George Wilkinson, a Methodist acquired six of them as well as shut them down. Today Watlington has 3 public houses: the Carriers Arms, The Chequers and also The Fat Fox Inn. Parliamentarian troops were billeted at Watlington throughout the English Civil Battle. It is thought that John Hampden stayed in the town the evening before the Battle of Chalgrove Field. In 1664-- 65 the City center was built at the expenditure of Thomas Stonor. Its upper area was enhanced by Stonor as a grammar school for children, and in 1731 Dame Alice Tipping of Ewelme provided a further endowment to increase the variety of pupils. In 1842 the town Vestry established a National School, which shared the same rooms in the Town Hall. In 1843 a National Institution for ladies was constructed beside St Leonard's church. In 1872 the boys' and girls' schools were soaked up into a new Board institution, which like its predecessors was affiliated to the National Society for Promoting Religious Education. In 1927 the school was divided into separate junior and also senior colleges. In 1956 a brand-new secondary school-- the Icknield College-- opened for elderly students as well as the primary school took over the old facilities. The Icknield School is now Icknield Community College. By 1895 the City center, no more made use of as an institution, was in disrepair. In 1907 it was brought back by public registration. It is a landmark at the meeting point of three roadways in the centre of the community. Given that 1990 Watlington has 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 uncovered in Watlington by James Mather, an amateur metal-detectorist, in 2015. The stockpile was subsequently dug deep into, as well as at some point purchased by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford for £ 1.35 m.
