Thame

Thame is a market metropolis and civil parish in Oxfordshire, about 21 km east of the town of Oxford and16 km southwest of the Buckinghamshire city of Aylesbury. It derives its toponym from the River Thame which flows along the north facet of the town. The parish includes the hamlet of Moreton south of the town. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 11,561. N1550 the courtier John Williams, 1st Baron Williams of Thame built the almshouses in Church Lane. He died in 1559, and his will set up the nearby grammar faculty.

Its original constructing, completed in 1569, stands subsequent to the almshouses. In 1880 the faculty moved to its present day premises in Oxford Road. In 1971 it have become a complete school underneath the name Lord Williams's School. Cuttle Brook is a nearby nature reserve in Thame, Oxfordshire, England. The Civil War inside the 1640s saw Thame occupied in flip by means of Royalists and by using Parliamentarians.

After the Battle of Chalgrove Field in 1643, Colonel John Hampden, who have been educated at the grammar school, died of his wounds at the house of Ezekiel Browne, later to end up the Greyhound Inn. As of 2010 some of Hampden's descendants nonetheless stay inside the city. The champion bare-knuckle boxer James Figg become born in Thame in 1684 and had his early prize-fights on the Greyhound Inn. In the twenty first century the Greyhound Inn was renamed the James Figg and in April 2011 the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board unveiled a blue plaque there to commemorate him.