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Wallingford - Burh to Borough Research Project
A five-year project involving Leicester, Exeter and Oxford Universities, Northampton Archaeology and the University of Leicester Archaeological Services. It is conducting geophysical and topographical surveys in and next to the town, and targetted excavation.
http://www.le.ac.uk/ar/njc10/wallingford_project/
Wallingford Town Council
History pages
http://www.wallingfordtown.co.uk/his_ancient.html
BBC Oxford's Wallingford Wander - A Walk Through Time
An interesting introduction to local history and wildlife.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/oxford/walk_through_time/index.shtml
David Nash Ford's History of Berkshire
A
personal site offering a detailed account of the traditional county of Berkshire, including Wallingford.
http://www.berkshirehistory.com/villages/wallingford.html
A History of the
P.H. Ditchfield,
William Page (eds) (1923) at
British History Online
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.asp?pubid=300
The borough of
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=43256
The borough of
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=43257
The borough of
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=43257
The liberty of Clapcot
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=43259
Old Towns - Wallingford
A directory account from 1843
.
http://www.oldtowns.co.uk/Berkshire/wallingford.htm
Wallingford History
A brief summary from Steve Lawson's personal genealogy site
http://kinnexions.com/kinnexions/wallhist.htm
Wallingford geology
A map of Wallingford chalk and greensand deposition, from a BBC website.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/oxford/walk_through_time/pop_up_maps/map_01.shtml
Floods and weather (search for Wallingford)
A personal site logging many major historical UK weather events, based on various sources.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/booty.weather/climate/wxevents.htm
British Hydrological Society Chronology of British Hydrological Events (hosted by Dundee University).
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/geography/cbhe/
Dendrochronology of Crowmarsh Gifford
Compiled by Oxford Dendrochronology Laboratory - an independent service.
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~arch0050/oxfordcc.htm
Wallingford MPs (scroll down to Wallingford)
http://www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/wcommons1.htm
Medieval Hospitals
by Margaret Markham
Vale and Downland Museum – Local History Series
http://www.wantage.com/museum/Local_History/Medieval%20Hospitals.pdf
Wallingford pot
Christine Bloxham tells the story of a cooking pot in use at the time of the Conquest (in Wallingford Museum): from "Limited Edition" magazine.
http://www.thisislimitededition.co.uk/item.asp?category=History&ID=286
Incest and nepotism in Wallingford (by
Major Alexander Greenwood)
An account of the Greenwood family history around Wallingford, from the Berkshire Family History Society's journal.
http://www.berksfhs.org.uk/journal/Jun2003/IncestAndNepotismInWallingford.htm
Winterbrook
An overview of the hamlet that adjoins Wallingford to the South
http://sites.google.com/site/winterbrookhistory
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