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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Watlington like this:
WATLINGTON, a small town, a parish, and a subdistrict, in Henley district, Oxford. The town stands at the foot of the Chiltern hills, 8 miles NE of Wallingford r. station; was known, at Domesday, as Watelintone; is a seat of petty sessions; and has a post-office under Tetsworth, a good inn, a police station of 1860, a town hall of 1644, a-lecture-hall, an ancient church, two dissenting chapels, an endowed school, charities £102, two breweries, and two annual fairs. ...
The parish includes three liberties, and comprises 3,440 acres. Real property, £6,062. Pop., 1,938. Houses, 418. The manors belong to T. S. Carter, Esq., and the Rev. W. P. Hutton; and W. Park is Mr. Carter's seat. A moated castle of 1338 was here. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £240.* Patron, T. S. Carter, Esq.—The sub-district contains 8 parishes and a chapelry. Acres, 20,313. Pop., 4,409. Houses, 913.
Watlington is now part of SOUTH OXFORDSHIRE District. Click here for graphs and data of how SOUTH OXFORDSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Watlington itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Watlington, in South Oxfordshire and Oxfordshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/10257
Date accessed: 08th November 2025
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