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Watlington
Watlington is a market town and civil parish about 7 miles (11 km) south of Thame in Oxfordshire, near the county's eastern edge and also less than 2 miles (3 kilometres) from its border with Buckinghamshire. The church includes the districts of Xmas Common, Greenfield and Howe Hillside, 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 actually been resolved at a very early day, encouraged by the distance of the Icknield Way. The toponym suggests "settlement of Waecel's individuals" and shows occupation from around the 6th century. A 9th-century charter by Æthelred of Mercia documents 8 'manses' or major houses in Watlington. The Domesday Book of 1086 identified the area as a farming neighborhood valued at £ 610. Medieval papers show that the modern road strategy was in presence in the 14th century, as Cochynes-lane (Couching Street), as well as Brook Street are recorded. There are records of inns in Watlington since the 15th century. In 1722 the town's market was provided as being held on a Saturday. By the end of the 18th century the town had 6 inns, every one of which were bought up in the next couple of years by a neighborhood brewing family members, the Haywards. The number of accredited properties increased till late in the 19th century when George Wilkinson, a Methodist bought 6 of them and also closed them down. Today Watlington has three hostelries: the Carriers Arms, The Chequers as well as The Fat Fox Inn. Parliamentarian soldiers were billeted at Watlington throughout the English Civil War. It is assumed that John Hampden remained in the town the night before the Battle of Chalgrove Field. In 1664-- 65 the Town Hall was developed at the cost of Thomas Stonor. Its upper area was endowed by Stonor as a grammar school for boys, as well as in 1731 Dame Alice Tipping of Ewelme provided an additional endowment to boost the variety of pupils. In 1842 the community Vestry established a National School, which shared the very same areas in the City center. In 1843 a National College for women was built beside St Leonard's church. In 1872 the boys' as well as girls' institutions were soaked up right into a brand-new Board institution, which like its predecessors was affiliated to the National Society for Promoting Religious Education. In 1927 the college was separated right into separate junior and elderly institutions. In 1956 a new senior high school-- the Icknield School-- opened up for elderly pupils and the primary school took control of the old facilities. The Icknield School is currently Icknield Community College. By 1895 the Town Hall, no more made use of as a school, remained in disrepair. In 1907 it was brought back by public registration. It is a spots at the meeting point of three roadways in the centre of the town. Considering that 1990 Watlington has been twinned with the town of Mansle in the Poitou-Charentes region of France. The Watlington Hoard, a collection of silver things going back to the moment of Alfred the Great in the 9th century, was rediscovered in Watlington by James Mather, an amateur metal-detectorist, in 2015. The hoard was consequently excavated, and ultimately bought by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford for £ 1.35 m.
