Wallingford

Wallingford is a market town and civil parish on the River Thames in South Oxfordshire, England, 12 miles north of Reading, 13 miles south of Oxford and 11 miles north west of Henley-on-Thames.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Wallingford Castle and Wallingford Museum.

Wallingford Castle

Castle

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Wallingford Castle is a medieval castle situated in Wallingford in the English county of Oxfordshire, adjacent to the River Thames. Established in the 11th century as a motte-and-bailey design within an Anglo-Saxon burgh, it grew to become what historian Nicholas Brooks has described as "one of the most powerful royal castles of the 12th and 13th centuries".

Wallingford Museum

Museum

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Wallingford Museum is a museum with collections of local interest in the town of Wallingford in the English county of Oxfordshire. The museum has an extensive collection relating to the town's history.

Corn Exchange

Theater building

Photo: Bill Nicholls, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Corn Exchange is a commercial building in the Market Place, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England. The structure, which is used as a theatre, is a Grade II listed building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Benson and Cholsey.

Benson

Village

Photo: Roger Templeman, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Benson is a village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England. The 2011 Census gave the parish population as 4,754. It lies about a mile and a half north of Wallingford at the foot of the Chiltern Hills, where a chalk stream, Ewelme Brook, joins the River Thames next to Benson Lock.

Cholsey

Village

Photo: Bill Nicholls, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Cholsey is a village and civil parish immediately south of Wallingford in South Oxfordshire. Its population in 2011 was 3,457. 2011 Census. Its parish boundary, some 17 miles long, reaches from the edge of Wallingford into the Berkshire Downs. Cholsey is situated 2 miles southwest of Wallingford.

Wallingford

Type: Locality
Location: South Oxfordshire District, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.6034° or 51° 36′ 12″ north

Longitude

-1.1321° or 1° 7′ 56″ west

Elevation

164 feet (50 metres)

Open location code

9C3WJV39+95

GeoNames ID

7292020

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