Watlington, Oxfordshire

Description
Watlington, a small town and a parish in Oxfordshire. The town stands at the foot of the Chiltern Hills, 8 miles NE of Wallingford, and 42 from London by the G.W.R., with a post, money order, and telegraph office under Tetsworth. The town-hall is an ancient building dating from 1664, and there are a lecture-hall and a police station. The town is the head of a petty sessional division, and it has two statute and pleasure fairs which are held on the Saturday before and the Saturday after Old Michaelmas Day. Acreage of the civil parish, 3687; population, 1734; of the ecclesiastical, 1657. Watlington Park is a chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £220 with residence. The church is a plain building of flint, chiefly in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, organ chamber, S chantry, vestry, and an embattled western tower. It was restored at a cost of over £4000 in 1877. There are Congregational, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan chapels, a cottage hospital, and a few small charities. Christmas Common is a small village in the parish. It has a small district church.