Agatha Christie
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Agatha Christie
Image: © Bill Nicholls Taken: 3 Oct 2023
Agatha Christie’s Bronze on the Kinecroft in Wallingford with Flint House in the background. You may have seen on the news about the unveiling on the 15th September 2023 which was her birthday, it was unveiled by her grandson. The bronze was paid for by Wallingford Council who proclaimed that she was a resident of Wallingford for 42 years. That is what they would like you to think! The fact is she was a resident of Winterbrook which, while she was alive, was in the parish of Cholsey Image When Agatha passed away, because she was in the parish of Cholsey, she was entitled to be buried at St Mary's church in Cholsey Image Had she lived in Wallingford her grave would have been lost amongst the others in the cemetery on the edge of town. Wallingford can only claim she was a resident because of a technicality in that Winterbrook is now part of the town. Had Agatha been alive, I think she would have been, like the rest of the residents, upset at joining Wallingford against their wishes.
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