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Wallingford Museum

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Wallingford Museum
Wallingford Museum
Wallingford Museum
Wallingford Museum
Wallingford Museum
Wallingford Museum
Wallingford Museum
Wallingford Museum
Wallingford Museum
Wallingford Museum
Wallingford Museum
Wallingford Museum
Wallingford Museum
Wallingford Museum
Wallingford Museum
Wallingford Museum
Wallingford Museum
Wallingford Museum
Wallingford Museum
Wallingford Museum
Wallingford Museum
Phone:
+44 1491 835065

Hours:
SundayClosed
MondayClosed
Tuesday2pm - 5pm
Wednesday2pm - 5pm
Thursday2pm - 5pm
Friday2pm - 5pm
Saturday10:30am - 5pm


Wallingford is a historic market town and civil parish located to the south of Oxford on the River Thames in England. Historically located in the county of Berkshire, it was transferred to Oxfordshire for the purposes of administration in 1974. Wallingford is situated 12 miles north of Reading, 13 miles south of Oxford and 11 miles north west of Henley-on-Thames. The town's population was 11,600 in the 2011 census.The town has played an important role in English history starting with the surrender of Stigand to William the Conqueror in 1066 which led to his taking the throne and the creation of Wallingford Castle. The castle and the town enjoyed royal status and flourished for much of the Middle Ages and was the location of the end of the civil war between King Stephen and Empress Matilda known as The Anarchy through The Treaty of Wallingford. The town then entered a period of decline after being hit hard by the Black Death and falling out of favour with the Tudor monarchs before being called on once again during the English Civil War as a Royalist stronghold. Wallingford held out as the last remaining Royalist stronghold in Berkshire before surrendering after a 16-week siege. Fearing that Wallingford Castle could be used in a future uprising Oliver Cromwell ordered its destruction. Since then Wallingford has become a market town and centre of local commerce. At the centre of the town is a large open market square with the war memorial and 17th century arcaded town hall to the south, the Corn Exchange theatre to the east and numerous shops around the edges. Off the square there are alleyways and streets with more shops and a number of historic inns.Although only a small town, Wallingford once had 14 churches; now there are three ancient churches within the Parish of St Mary-le-More and St Leonard, a modern Roman Catholic church as well as a Quaker Meeting House dating from 1724 and Baptist, Methodist and community churches. Wallingford is run by a town council consisting of 16 councillors. It is part of the South Oxfordshire district and the county of Oxfordshire having formerly been represented by the Municipal Borough of Wallingford. The Member of Parliament is Ed Vaizey and the County Councillor is Lynda Atkins, one of five Independent members of Oxfordshire County Council.
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