Wallingford, mun. bor. and market town, Berks, on river Thames, 14½ miles NW. of Reading and 51 from London by rail, 380 ac., pop. 2803; P.O., T.O.; 2 Banks, 2 newspapers. Market-day, Friday. Wallingford was a stronghold of the ancient Britons, the Romans, and the Saxons; its castle, reconstructed by William the Conqueror, was dismantled in 1646. It has 3 old churches, a grammar school, market place, corn exchange, free library, &c., and a bridge, 900 ft. long, across the Thames. Wallingford was created a borough by Edward the Confessor; it sent 2 members to Parliament from the 23d year of Edward I. until 1832 (when its parliamentary limits were extended into Oxfordshire), and 1 member from 1832 until 1885.

(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))