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Thame Local History
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12th Century Dates (1100 - 1199)
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| 1128 | First ever Cistercian house in Britain founded at Waverley by Bishop of Winchester. | |
| 1137 | Robert le Gait founded a Cistercian house at Oddington on Otmoor. more | |
| 1138 | Thame Park, the Bishop of Lincoln's deer park, was given by him to the Cistercian monks of Otmoor. more | |
| 1141 | The Bishop of Lincoln's gift of land to the Cistercians was confirmed by the Pope. more | |
| 1142 | Cistercian monks completed the move to Thame Park. more | |
| 1145 | The abbey church at Thame Park, Sancta Maria de Parco Thame, was consecrated. more | |
| 1146 |
Bishop Alexander of Lincoln endowed Thame prebend with land. Thame new town may have been laid out. References |
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| 1183 | Tuesday market charters granted to Walter de Coutances by King Henry II (also 1184, 1185 and 1186). | |
| 1185 | Lincoln Cathedral hit by an earthquake. |