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Wallingford Museum - the first place to start to find out more about
Wallingford's history:
Wallingford Museum,
Flint House, High Street,
Wallingford, OX10 0DB, UK
Phone: 01491 835065
Email: admin@wallingfordmuseum.org.uk
http://www.wallingfordmuseum.org.uk
The Wallingford Historical & Archaeological Society (TWHAS)
Contact: Colin Clarke
TWHAS, Wallingford Museum,
Flint House, High Street,
WALLINGFORD,
OX10 0DB.
Email: twhas@cmclarke.demon.co.uk
http://www.wallingfordmuseum.org.uk/twhas_home.htm
With 140 members, it organises events include lectures, oral history, photographic & historical research, management of Wallingford Museum, and an annual excavation project. Meets second Friday of the month at 7.45 pm in Wallingford Town Hall.
Programme for 2008:Reading Museum - holds many finds from the River Thames at Wallingford.
Thames Water Collection - objects from Wallingford
http://www.readingmuseum.org.uk/modes/scripts/modesd.dll?PhraseSelect=2414
Limestone relief panel of Aquarius from Wallignford Castle, made about 1120, on display in Reading Museum
Ashmolean, Oxford - holds many artefacts from excavations, and coins from Wallingford Mint.
http://www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk/
Finds from Wallingford
http://www.ashmolean.org/ash/amps/leeds/AS_Oxfordshire/wallingford/wallingford_index.html
Bodleian Library, Oxford
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/
Centre for Oxfordshire Studies - useful collection of resources for local history.
http://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/wps/portal/publicsite/councilservices?WCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT=http://apps.oxfordshire.gov.uk/wps/wcm/connect/Internet/Council+Services/Leisure+and+culture/History+and+heritage/Oxfordshire+Studies/
Heritage search for Wallingford
http://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/wps/portal/publicsite/doitonline/finditonline/heritage
Viewfinder - pictures of Wallingford
http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.uk/search/results.aspx?index=0&mainQuery=Wallingford&searchType=all&form=home
British Museum, London
http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/
The seal-die of Godwin and Godgytha , found at Wallingford, is housed in the British Museum.
http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pe_mla/s/seal-die_of_godwin_and_godgyth.aspx
British Library
Images of John of Wallingford (infirmarius) and from his chronicles, and Richard of Wallingford.
http://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/results.asp?lstorients=All+Orientations&lstformats=&wwwflag=&changewwwflag=1&changetncaptions=1&tncaptions=&addposition=&disablepopup=yes&txtkeys1=Wallingford&collections=&pixperpage=24&searchprev=
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