Editing Wallingford, Oxfordshire (section)

==Governance==
There are three tiers of local government covering Wallingford, at [[civil parish]] (town), [[non-metropolitan district|district]], and [[non-metropolitan county|county]] level: Wallingford Town Council, [[South Oxfordshire District Council]], and [[Oxfordshire County Council]]. The town council meets at the Town Hall and has its offices at 8A Castle Street.<ref>{{cite web |title=Contact us |url=https://www.wallingfordtowncouncil.gov.uk/your-council/contact/ |website=Wallingford Town Council |access-date=9 November 2024}}</ref>

===Administrative history===
Wallingford was an [[ancient borough]]. It was a borough by the time of the [[Domesday Book]] in 1086, at which time it was the largest town in [[Berkshire]]. Its first [[municipal charter]] was granted in 1156.<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Ditchfield |editor1-first=P. H. |editor2-last=Page |editor2-first=William |title=A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 3 |date=1923 |publisher=Victoria County History |location=London |pages=531–539 |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/berks/vol3/pp531-539 |access-date=9 November 2024 |chapter=The borough of Wallingford: Honour and borough}}</ref> The borough was subdivided into the four parishes of All Hallows, St Leonard, St Mary-le-More, and St Peter.<ref>{{cite book |title=First Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the Municipal Corporations in England and Wales: Part 1 |date=1835 |page=133 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7pNRAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA133 |access-date=9 November 2024}}</ref>

The borough was reformed to become a [[municipal borough]] in 1836 under the [[Municipal Corporations Act 1835]], which standardised how most boroughs operated across the country.<ref>{{cite book |title=Municipal Corporations Act 1835 |date=1835 |page=463 |url=https://archive.org/details/statutesunitedk35britgoog/page/462/mode/2up |access-date=9 November 2024}}</ref> All the parishes in the borough were united into a single civil parish of Wallingford in 1919.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Langston |first1=Brett |title=Wallingford Registration District |url=https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/reg/districts/wallingford.html |website=UK BMD |access-date=9 November 2024}}</ref>

The borough of Wallingford was abolished in 1974 under the [[Local Government Act 1972]], which also transferred Wallingford to Oxfordshire. District-level functions formerly performed by the borough council passed to the new South Oxfordshire District Council.<ref>{{cite legislation UK|type=si|si=The English Non-metropolitan Districts (Definition) Order 1972|year=1972|number=2039|accessdate=22 September 2022}}</ref> The government initially proposed calling the new district 'Wallingford', but the shadow council elected in 1973 to oversee the transition requested a change of name to 'South Oxfordshire', which was approved by the government before the new district formally came into being.<ref>{{cite legislation UK|type=si|si=The English Non-metropolitan District (Names) Order 1973|year=1973|number=551|accessdate=22 September 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Now it's... South Oxfordshire |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/ |access-date=22 September 2022 |work=Evening Post |date=29 September 1973 |location=Reading |page=12}}</ref>

A [[successor parish]] covering the area of the former borough was created in 1974, with its council taking the name Wallingford Town Council.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1973/1110/made|title=The Local Government (Successor Parishes) Order 1973|publisher=[[legislation.gov.uk]]|accessdate=7 August 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Wallingford Town Council |url=https://www.wallingfordtowncouncil.gov.uk/town-council |publisher=Wallingford Town Council |access-date=8 May 2019}}</ref>

===Constituency===
Since 2024, Wallingford has formed part of the [[Didcot and Wantage (UK Parliament constituency)|Didcot and Wantage constituency]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Election Maps |url=https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/election-maps/gb/ |publisher=Ordnance Survey |access-date=9 November 2024}}</ref>

There was a [[Wallingford (UK Parliament constituency)|Wallingford constituency]] until 1885. From 1295 until 1832 it covered just the borough. In 1832, it was enlarged to cover several adjoining parts of Berkshire.<ref>{{cite book |title=Parliamentary Boundaries Act 1832 |date=1832 |page=334 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Uq0uAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA334 |access-date=9 November 2024}}</ref>