Wallingford
Wallingford is an historic 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 10,300 residents
- Description: town and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England
- Also known as: “Wallingford-on-Thames”, “Wallingford, Oxfordshire”, and “Wallingford, Oxon”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wallingford Castle and Wallingford Museum.
Wallingford Castle
Castle
Photo: Pitou250, Public domain.
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
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
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: Motmit, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Crowmarsh Gifford
Village
Photo: Bill Nicholls, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Crowmarsh Gifford, commonly known as Crowmarsh, is a village in the civil parish of Crowmarsh, in the South Oxfordshire district, in the county of Oxfordshire, England.
Wallingford
- Categories: civil parish, market town, and locality
- Location: South Oxfordshire District, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.5983° or 51° 35′ 54″ northLongitude
-1.1251° or 1° 7′ 31″ westPopulation
10,300Elevation
167 feet (51 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB WLFOpen location code
9C3WHVXF+8WOpenStreetMap ID
node 27532643OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Welsh—“Wallingford” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Ուոլինգֆորդ”
- Asturian: “Wallingford”
- Azerbaijani: “Uollinqford”
- Basque: “Wallingford”
- Bengali: “ওয়েলিংফোর্ড”
- Breton: “Wallingford”
- Catalan: “Wallingford”
- Cebuano: “Wallingford”
- Chinese: “Wallingford”
- Chinese: “瓦林福德”
- Chinese: “瓦灵福特”
- Chinese: “瓦靈福德”
- Chinese: “瓦靈福特”
- Czech: “Wallingford”
- Dutch: “Wallingford”
- Esperanto: “Wallingford”
- French: “Wallingford”
- Georgian: “უოლინგფორდი”
- German: “Wallingford”
- Gujarati: “વૉલિંગફોર્ડ”
- Hebrew: “ולינגפורד”
- Hungarian: “Wallingford”
- Irish: “Wallingford, Oxfordshire”
- Irish: “Wallingford”
- Italian: “Wallingford”
- Japanese: “ウォーリングフォード”
- Japanese: “ウォリングフォード”
- Japanese: “ワリンフォード”
- Kannada: “ವಾಲಿಂಗ್ಫೋರ್ಡ್”
- Korean: “월링퍼드”
- Ladin: “Wallingford”
- Latin: “Wallingford”
- Lithuanian: “Velingfordas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Wallingford (Oxfordshire)”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wallingford”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wallingford”
- Norwegian: “Wallingford”
- Persian: “والینگفورد، آکسفوردشر”
- Polish: “Wallingford”
- Portuguese: “Wallingford”
- Romanian: “Wallingford”
- Russian: “Уоллингфорд”
- Scots: “Wallingford”
- Serbian: “Волингфорд (Оксфордшир)”
- Serbian: “Волингфорд”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wallingford, Oxfordshire”
- Slovak: “Wallingford”
- Slovenian: “Wallingford”
- South Azerbaijani: “والینقفورد، آکسفوردشر”
- Spanish: “Wallingford”
- Swedish: “Wallingford, England”
- Swedish: “Wallingford”
- Tamil: “வால்லிங்போர்ட”
- Telugu: “వాల్లింగ్ ఫోర్డ్”
- Turkish: “Wallingford, Oxfordshire”
- Ukrainian: “Воллінгфорд”
- Urdu: “والینجفورڈ”
- Vietnamese: “Wallingford, Oxfordshire”
- Vietnamese: “Wallingford”
- Volapük: “Wallingford”
- Welsh: “Wallingford”
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