Wallingford occurs as small town in the Thames Valley in southern England.

These are the strategically crucial crossing point on the River Thames. In a period of the 1066 Norman conquest of England, the Saxon lord Wigod allowed William the Conqueror's invading armies to cross a Thames from either N to South.

Wallingford itself sits on a american side of the Thames; through the flow of any stream is the village of Crowmarsh Gifford. Them come linked by owning a notable 900 foot hanker stone bridge through the Thames & adjacent floodlands.

Given a town's strategical importance, it has been fortified since at least Saxon days, whenever it was an significant a portion of the kingdom of Wessex and allowed to mint its own coins. Since William and his Norman army were permitted to cross a flow of any stream unopposed, a town received favorite favor from either the Norman vanquisher.

A Treaty of Wallingford was signed there in November 1153, ending the Civil War that experienced begun fallowing Henry I's death. the town was granted a Royal Charter inside 1154 by the new King Henry II, being 1 of a number one towns to receive one (prior to London, for instance).

a Castle was a regular royal home until a Plague hit the town badly within 1349. A castle declined afterwards (tremendously stone existence flushed to renovate Windsor Castle) but it became a Royalist fastness in the period of the English Civil War. It was the endure holdout of a Royalists in the vicinity, & the castle withstood a 65 day beleaguering. Oliver Cromwell subsequently ordered the destruction of what was left of the castle & little okay, remains.

Wallingford has an informal twinning link with Wallingford, Connecticut.