Watlington
Watlington is a market community and civil parish about 7 miles (11 km) south of Thame in Oxfordshire, near the region's eastern side and less than 2 miles (3 kilometres) from its boundary with Buckinghamshire. The parish includes the districts of Christmas Common, Greenfield as well as Howe Hill, every one of which remain in the Chiltern Hills. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 2,727. The Watlington area is most likely to have been worked out at an early date, urged by the proximity of the Icknield Way. The toponym implies "negotiation of Waecel's people" as well as shows profession from around the 6th century. A 9th-century charter by Æthelred of Mercia records eight 'manses' or major residences in Watlington. The Domesday Book of 1086 identified the area as a farming community valued at £ 610. Medieval records indicate that the modern road strategy was in existence in the 14th century, as Cochynes-lane (Couching Street), and Brook Street are recorded. There are documents of inns in Watlington given that 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 following couple of years by a neighborhood developing household, the Haywards. The number of certified facilities enhanced till late in the 19th century when George Wilkinson, a Methodist purchased 6 of them and also closed them down. Today Watlington has 3 hostelries: the Carriers Arms, The Chequers and The Fat Fox Inn. Parliamentarian soldiers were billeted at Watlington during the English Civil War. It is thought that John Hampden remained in the community the evening before the Battle of Chalgrove Field. In 1664-- 65 the City center was developed at the expense of Thomas Stonor. Its top room was endowed by Stonor as a grade school for kids, and also in 1731 Dame Alice Tipping of Ewelme gave a further endowment to raise the variety of students. In 1842 the community Vestry established a National School, which shared the same areas in the Town Hall. In 1843 a National College for girls was developed beside St Leonard's church. In 1872 the young boys' as well as girls' colleges were soaked up right into a new Board college, which like its predecessors was affiliated to the National Society for Promoting Religious Education. In 1927 the institution was divided right into different junior as well as elderly colleges. In 1956 a new secondary school-- the Icknield School-- opened up for senior pupils as well as the primary school took over the old facilities. The Icknield School is now Icknield Community College. By 1895 the Town Hall, no more used as a school, was in disrepair. In 1907 it was recovered by public subscription. It is a site at the meeting point of three roads in the centre of the community. Since 1990 Watlington has actually been twinned with the community of Mansle in the Poitou-Charentes region 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 heap was subsequently excavated, and also ultimately bought by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford for £ 1.35 m.
