Thame (pronounced "Tame", with a silent "h") is a market town in Oxfordshire, on the River Thame between Aylesbury and Oxford. Founded in Anglo-Saxon times, Thame grew up to service local agricultural activity and the nearby Cistercian monastery at Thame Park, suppressed at the Reformation. The church of St Mary the Virgin dates from about 1240. The English Civil War of the 1640s saw Thame occupied in turn by both Royalists and Parliamentarians. Thame railway station closed in 1963, but the town is now served by Haddenham and Thame Parkway railway station, a passenger-only station, which was opened in 1987 on the Birmingham to Marylebone line maintained by Chiltern Railways.
A walk to and from this railway station did not take long and following a decent couple of hours in the town centre, an excellent hard thought cup tie was witnessed.
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