Watlington
Watlington is a market community and also civil parish regarding 7 miles (11 km) south of Thame in Oxfordshire, near the area's eastern side as well as less than 2 miles (3 kilometres) from its border with Buckinghamshire. The parish includes the hamlets of Christmas Common, Greenfield and also Howe Hillside, all of which remain in the Chiltern Hills. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 2,727. The Watlington area is likely to have actually been worked out at a very early day, encouraged by the closeness of the Icknield Way. The toponym means "settlement of Waecel's people" as well as suggests profession from around the 6th century. A 9th-century charter by Æthelred of Mercia documents 8 'manses' or significant residences in Watlington. The Domesday Book of 1086 determined the area as an agricultural area valued at £ 610. Medieval records suggest that the modern-day road strategy was in presence in the 14th century, as Cochynes-lane (Couching Street), as well as Brook Street are recorded. There are documents of inns in Watlington because the 15th century. In 1722 the community's market was detailed as being held 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 neighborhood developing household, the Haywards. The number of licensed facilities increased till late in the 19th century when George Wilkinson, a Methodist got six of them as well as shut them down. Today Watlington has three public houses: the Carriers Arms, The Chequers and The Fat Fox Inn. Parliamentarian soldiers were billeted at Watlington throughout the English Civil Battle. It is assumed that John Hampden stayed in the community the evening before the Battle of Chalgrove Field. In 1664-- 65 the Town Hall was constructed at the expenditure of Thomas Stonor. Its upper room was enhanced by Stonor as a grade school for boys, and in 1731 Dame Alice Tipping of Ewelme provided a more endowment to increase the number of students. In 1842 the community Vestry developed a National School, which shared the exact same rooms in the City center. In 1843 a National Institution for ladies was developed alongside St Leonard's church. In 1872 the boys' and girls' schools were absorbed into a new Board institution, which like its predecessors was associated to the National Society for Promoting Religious Education. In 1927 the institution was split right into separate junior and elderly institutions. In 1956 a brand-new high school-- the Icknield College-- opened for elderly students and also the primary school took control of the old premises. The Icknield School is now Icknield Community College. By 1895 the City center, no more used as a school, was in disrepair. In 1907 it was restored by public registration. It is a landmark at the meeting point of 3 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 items going back to the moment 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 dug deep into, and also ultimately bought by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford for £ 1.35 m.