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Wallingford sits at a strategic crossing point of the Thames, roughly midway between Oxford and Reading. Its layout still follows the original grid of the ninth-century Saxon burh, and you can still walk along the high earthwork banks that once protected the town from Viking raids. Today, the focus of the town is the wide Market Place, which hosts regular charter markets beneath the raised 17th-century Corn Exchange. Life here tends to revolve around the river and the independent shops along the high street, rather than the fast-paced retail found in larger nearby hubs. For travel, the town is distinct in that it doesn't have its own mainline station; residents usually head a couple of miles down the road to Cholsey or over to Didcot Parkway for fast trains into London Paddington. It is a place characterized by its flint-walled ruins, its long medieval bridge, and a tangible sense of its own long-standing history.