28 Facts About Wallingford Oxfordshire

Wallingford Oxfordshire is an historic market town and civil parish located between Oxford and Reading on the River Thames in England.

Wallingford Oxfordshire is 12 miles north of Reading, 13 miles south of Oxford and 11 miles north west of Henley-on-Thames.

The Treaty of Wallingford Oxfordshire, which ended a civil war known as The Anarchy between King Stephen and Empress Matilda, was signed there.

Wallingford Oxfordshire held out as the last remaining Royalist stronghold in Berkshire before surrendering after a 16-week siege.

Since then Wallingford Oxfordshire has become a market town and centre of local commerce.

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Wallingford Oxfordshire developed around an important crossing point of the River Thames.

The place-name 'Wallingford Oxfordshire' is first attested in a Saxon charter of 821, where it appears as Wælingford.

Wallingford Oxfordshire has been fortified since the Anglo-Saxon period when it was an important fortified borough of Wessex with the right to mint royal coinage.

Wallingford Oxfordshire became the chief town of Berkshire and the seat of the county's Ealdorman.

At that time, the river at Wallingford Oxfordshire was the lowest point at which the river could be forded.

Wallingford Oxfordshire Castle was built soon afterward on the orders of William, and became a key strategic centre controlling the Thames crossing and surrounding area.

Wallingford Oxfordshire Priory, known as Holy Trinity Priory, is believed to have stood on the site of the Bull Croft recreation ground off the High Street.

Wallingford Oxfordshire provided refuge for the Empress Matilda's party during the civil war that began after her father Henry I's death.

Wallingford Oxfordshire combined it with the Honour of Ewelme, which included the rights over his existing residence and lands at Ewelme.

The royal headquarters were in Oxford, which made the defence of Wallingford Oxfordshire, which controlled the area to the south, especially strategically important.

Now only Wallingford Oxfordshire remained, its garrison faithfully holding the town and castle for the king under the leadership of Colonel Blagge.

On his way to London to claim the throne, William of Orange visited Wallingford Oxfordshire and stayed at the Lamb Inn before crossing the river Thames and proceeding to Henley.

Borough of Wallingford was disbanded as a result of the Local Government Act 1972 and the town was transferred into a new local government district called South Oxfordshire.

Wallingford Oxfordshire Bridge is a medieval road bridge over the River Thames connecting Wallingford Oxfordshire to Crowmarsh Gifford.

Wallingford Oxfordshire has historically been an important crossing point of the Thames owing to the presence of a ford which was used before the construction of a bridge.

Refortified during the English Civil War, Wallingford Oxfordshire was held as a Royalist stronghold commanded by Colonel Thomas Blagge.

Wallingford Oxfordshire Museum is a museum with collections of local interest, housed in a Tudor house in the High Street.

In 1972 the Local Government Act set out in law that in 1974 the Borough of Wallingford would be disbanded and the town would be transferred into a new local government district called South Oxfordshire.

Since 1974 the Wallingford ward has elected a county councillor to Oxfordshire County Council.

Wallingford Oxfordshire sold the line to the Great Western Railway in 1872, and it became known as the Wallingford Bunk.

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Wallingford Oxfordshire'storically, Wallingford was a centre for local trading in livestock and corn as well as the general trade of other goods.

Regatta was held on the same reach at Wallingford Oxfordshire for most of its existence, but river conditions caused problems, and there was a growing need for larger facilities.

Wallingford Oxfordshire used to return two Members of Parliament, cut to one in 1832 and none in 1885.