Wallingford (Oxfordshire)
Coordinates: 51 ° 36 ′ N , 1 ° 8 ′ W
Wallingford is a city and civil parish in England . It belongs to the South Oxfordshire district of Oxfordshire and is located on the Thames . In 2001 Wallingford had 6,842 residents.
Alfred the Great built a fortified city with strong walls at Wallingford to protect against Viking raids. The origins of the castle of Wallingford are the time of the Conqueror Wilhelm . After the Battle of Hastings , William crossed the Thames at Wallingford so that he could attack London (1066).
Wallingford was important during the reign of Stephen of Blois . When Henry I died in 1135 and Matilda of England was in France, a nephew of the late king, Count Stephan von Blois, seized the English throne. Matilda later supported the claim to the throne of her son Heinrich , from 1150 Duke of Normandy, who was recognized as heir by Stephan in the Treaty of Wallingford in 1153 and ascended to the throne the following year after Stephen's death. Johann Ohneland and Richard of Cornwall expanded the castle. Edward I , Margaret of Anjou and Owen Tudor were all imprisoned in Wallingford Castle. Joan of Kent died in Wallingford Castle in 1385. This was a royalist fortress during the English Civil War . Oliver Cromwell destroyed the castle after the war (1652). The lock of Chalmore lock was located from 1838 to 1883 in the Thames at Wallingford. On January 12, 1976, the writer Agatha Christie died in Wallingford.
Marcus Harris , Julian from the 1970 series Five Friends , lives and works in Wallingford. Ross Antony ran a bed and breakfast here called Little Gables with partner Paul Reeves . Wallingford also serves as the backdrop for the fictional Causton of the TV series Inspector Barnaby, alongside Thame .
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