11 Oct
New Kitchen
Marlow - SL7
Enquiry from: Paul H
Start Date: Immediate
Property: terrace
Watlington
Watlington is a market town as well as civil parish regarding 7 miles (11 kilometres) 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 church includes the hamlets of Christmas Common, Greenfield and Howe Hill, every one of which are in the Chiltern Hills. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 2,727. The Watlington area is likely to have been settled at a very early date, encouraged by the proximity of the Icknield Way. The toponym implies "negotiation of Waecel's people" and indicates profession from around the sixth century. A 9th-century charter by Æthelred of Mercia documents eight 'manses' or major residences in Watlington. The Domesday Book of 1086 determined the area as a farming community valued at £ 610. Medieval papers show that the modern road plan remained in existence in the 14th century, as Cochynes-lane (Couching Street), and also Brook Street are recorded. There are documents of inns in Watlington because the 15th century. In 1722 the community's market was listed as being held on a Saturday. By the end of the 18th century the community had 6 inns, every one of which were bought up in the next couple of years by a regional brewing family, the Haywards. The variety of certified facilities increased till late in the 19th century when George Wilkinson, a Methodist acquired 6 of them and shut them down. Today Watlington has three hostelries: the Carriers Arms, The Chequers and The Fat Fox Inn. Parliamentarian troops were billeted at Watlington throughout the English Civil War. It is thought that John Hampden stayed in the town the night prior to the Battle of Chalgrove Field. In 1664-- 65 the Town Hall was constructed at the expense of Thomas Stonor. Its top area was enhanced by Stonor as a grade school for boys, as well as in 1731 Dame Alice Tipping of Ewelme provided a more endowment to boost the number of pupils. In 1842 the town Vestry established a National School, which shared the very same spaces in the Town Hall. In 1843 a National School for girls was constructed alongside St Leonard's church. In 1872 the boys' as well as girls' institutions were taken in right into a brand-new Board college, which like its predecessors was connected to the National Society for Promoting Religious Education. In 1927 the school was divided right into separate junior and elderly colleges. In 1956 a new secondary school-- the Icknield School-- opened for senior students and the primary school took control of the old facilities. The Icknield School is now Icknield Community College. By 1895 the Town Hall, no more made use of as an institution, remained in disrepair. In 1907 it was recovered by public subscription. It is a landmark at the meeting point of three roadways in the centre of the community. Since 1990 Watlington has been twinned with the town of Mansle in the Poitou-Charentes area of France. The Watlington Hoard, a collection of silver products 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 consequently excavated, and at some point purchased by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford for £ 1.35 m.
