The centre of Wallingford has the feel of a typical old market town, with a large open town square around the war memorial, the 17th century arcaded town hall, and numerous shops.

Wallingford Castle was built soon afterwards and became a key strategic centre for the Empress Matilda's party during the civil war that began after her father Henry I's death.

Currently, Wallingford is the twenty-third most populous community of Connecticut ’ s 169 cities and towns, ranks 21st in terms of 2001 Equalized Net Taxable Grand List ($ 3, 723, 201, 280 ) and is 97th in the state in terms of estimated 2002 nominal income per capita ($ 29, 788 ) of its residents.

However, most of the line has been preserved as the Cholsey and Wallingford Railway.

These possessions consisted of most of Cornwall, as well as parts of Devonshire in the south-west, land in Berkshire and Oxfordshire centred on the honour of Wallingford, most of the eastern part of Lincolnshire, and the honour of Knaresborough in Yorkshire, with the territories that belonged to it.

The phase of the conflict known as " the Castle War " saw both sides attempting to defeat each other through sieges, such as Stephen's attempts to take Wallingford, the most easterly fortress in Matilda's push towards London, or Geoffrey de Mandeville's attempts to seize East Anglia by taking Cambridge Castle.

Consequently most of the generals of the Wallingford House party and the key members of the Long Parliament who were in the good old republican commonwealth cause would lose their lives upon the restoration of King Charles II.

John Noble Wallingford was a major local landowner and real estate speculator ; at one time his holdings included most of what is now Wallingford and extended north as far as Green Lake.

Although his country estate was in Aldermaston, he would have spent most of the time in the original county town of Wallingford.

It operates along most of the length of the former Wallingford branch of the Great Western Railway ( GWR ), from Cholsey station, north of Reading on the Great Western Main Line, to a station on the outskirts of the nearby town of Wallingford.

However most of the line was retained to serve a maltings adjacent to the railway on the outskirts of Wallingford.

ATI has had a consistent history of strategic acquisitions, notably Wallingford Steel in 1935, West Leechburg Steel in 1936, Jessop Steel in 1994, the assets of Lukens Washington Steel in 1998, J & L Specialty Steel in 2004, and most recently Wisconsin-based Ladish Co. to expand its offerings in the aerospace sector.

It contains most of the South Oxfordshire local government district, with the exception of the towns of Didcot and Wallingford and surrounding villages in that part of the district within historic Berkshire.

It featured in addition to Quigley ( vocals, bass, guitar, synthesizers ) and Wallingford ( vocals, guitar, piano, synthesizers, percussion ) many guest musicians, most noteworthy being drummer Joey Waronker who has played drums with Beck, R. E. M.

* Schools: A number of schools have been named after Hammarskjöld, including Hammarskjold Middle School in East Brunswick Township, New Jersey ; Dag Hammarskjold Middle School in Wallingford, Connecticut ; Dag Hammarskjold Elementary School in Parma, Ohio ; Dag Hammarskjold Elementary ( PS 254 ) in Brooklyn, New York ; Dag Hammarskjold Elementary School in Oakland ( now an airport parking business ) and Hammarskjold High School in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

The younger Dos Passos received a first-class education, enrolling at The Choate School ( now Choate Rosemary Hall ) in Wallingford, Connecticut in 1907 under the name John Roderigo Madison, then traveling with a private tutor on a six-month tour of France, England, Italy, Greece, and the Middle East to study the masters of classical art, architecture, and literature.

Wallingford playfield borders recently renovated Hamilton International Middle School and features views and a wading pool open in summer months.

Wycliffe's contest with Owtred and William Wynham ( or Wyrinham or Binham ) of Wallingford Priory and St Albans, the Benedictine professor of theology at Oxford, were formerly unknown, as were the earlier ones with William Wadeford.

In 1525, at the height of his power, Thomas Wolsey, Lord Chancellor of England and Cardinal Archbishop of York, suppressed the Priory of St Frideswide in Oxford and founded Cardinal College on its lands, using funds from the dissolution of Wallingford Priory and other minor priories.

Long-cross pennies were produced at Bristol, Bury St Edmunds, Canterbury, Carlisle, Durham, Exeter, Gloucester, Hereford, Ilchester, Lincoln, London, Newcastle, Northampton, Norwich, Oxford, Shrewsbury, Wallingford, Wilton, Winchester, and York.

The atlases are produced by the Biological Records Centre ( BRC ), which is run by the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, part of the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, formerly based at Monks Wood Experimental Station, Abbots Ripton, Huntingdonshire, England, but now based at CEH Wallingford, Crowmarsh Gifford, Oxfordshire.

The American part of the evening consisted of Paul Creston's Dance Overture, William Schuman's `` Chester '' From `` New England Triptych '' and two works of Wallingford Riegger, Dance Rhythms, Op. 58, and a Romanza For Strings, Op. 56A.

The two armies met at Wallingford but neither side's barons were keen to fight another pitched battle.

Upon news of this, Stephen gathered up a large force and marched from Oxford, and the two sides confronted each other across the River Thames at Wallingford in July.

He died in April 1156, aged two years due to a seizure at Wallingford Castle and was buried in Reading Abbey at the feet of his great-grandfather Henry I.

Upon news of this, Stephen gathered up a large force and marched from Oxford, and the two sides confronted each other across the River Thames at Wallingford in July.

The two are linked by Wallingford Bridge, a 900 ft long mediaeval stone bridge across the river and the adjacent flood plain.

This was only revived in the 18th century when the legal writer and Wallingford resident, William Blackstone, established two turnpike roads through the town.

Wallingford used to return two Members of Parliament ( cut to one in 1832 and none in 1885 ), and had some well-known MPs ( often not resident ) including:

He was incarcerated in Connecticut for two years, first in Wallingford then Middletown, where he surreptitiously engaged Americans in supporting the Loyalist cause.

Named after Fremont, Nebraska, the hometown of two of its founders, L. H. Griffith and E. Blewett, it is situated along the Fremont Cut of the Lake Washington Ship Canal to the north of Queen Anne, the east of Ballard, the south of Phinney Ridge, and the southwest of Wallingford.

In 2007, Wallingford was named by Money Magazine as the 9th best place to live in the United States ; two other towns in the area made the top 15.

They won the CCL championship in 2002 – 03, winning 40 games, drawing four and losing only two, coming from behind to overwhelm AFC Wallingford, who had won the previous season, and AFC Wimbledon, who would win the following season.

In 2001 – 02, AFC Wallingford won the Combined Counties League championship, and they were runners-up to Withdean 2000 and AFC Wimbledon in the succeeding two years.

Wallingford's business district extends along N 45th Street from Stone Way N in the west to Sunnyside Avenue N in the east and features many small shops, two banks, a pharmacy, a few taverns and bars, the two Guild 45th movie theaters, the Wallingford Center ( the former Interlake Elementary School, now turned into shops and apartments ), and numerous restaurants ( including the original Dick's Drive-In, founded 1954 ).

From Manchester to Wallingford, the road is two lanes and rural.

In 1553, he was elected Member of Parliament for Wallingford ( then in Berkshire now in Oxfordshire ), followed, in the next two years, by the same office for both Reading, Berkshire and then Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire.

As a nephew of both Henry III and Simon de Montfort, he wavered between the two at the beginning of the Barons ' War, but finally took the royalist side and was among the hostages taken by Montfort after the Battle of Lewes ( 1264 ), was held at Wallingford Castle and later released.

* The Drust Family – Operates two stores ; in Wallingford, Connecticut ( moved from Meriden in June 2010 ) and Southington, Connecticut.

Born in 1958, Mike grew up in Seattle's Wallingford neighborhood with two sisters, Molly and Meaghan.

More recent years have found Wallingford as a married father of two, cabaret performer, avid chess player, and music teacher, living in the swamps of Jersey.