It derives its name from the River Thame which flows along the north side of the town and forms part of the county border with Buckinghamshire.

The aisles were widened in the 14th century, when they acquired their Decorated Gothic windows and doors.

The Decorated Gothic south porch has two storeys and a two-bay quadripartite vault.

At about the same time the south transept acquired similar windows and was extended eastwards to form a chapel with a 15th-century piscina.

In 1661 the antiquary Anthony Wood reported that the house was ruinous, and early in the 19th century the remains were in use as a farmhouse and barns.

[10] The prebendal houses and the Church of St. Mary were both attacked repeatedly in the early 1290s during a violent conflict between the bishop of Lincoln, Oliver Sutton, and a knight of King Edward I, Sir John St.

After the Battle of Chalgrove Field in 1643, Colonel John Hampden, who had been educated at the grammar school, died of his wounds at the house of Ezekiel Browne,[13] later to become the Greyhound Inn.

The champion bare-knuckle boxer James Figg was born in Thame in the late 17th century and had his early prize-fights at the Greyhound Inn.

[15] In the 18th century many of the buildings in the boat-shaped High Street were re-faced with modern facades built of locally produced salt glazed bricks.

A younger son, Henry Boddington, who had been born at Thame Mill in 1813, followed his brother and joined the same brewery in 1832.

[19] Thame Poor Law Union was established in 1835 and the following year a new workhouse designed by George Wilkinson was built on Oxford Road.

Thame Town Hall was designed by the architect HJ Tollit in Jacobethan style and built in 1888.

[22] In 1940 Willocks McKenzie, a local lorry driver, found a small hoard of late Medieval coins and rings beside the River Thame.

Junction 7 at Milton Common is about 3 miles (5 km) southwest of Thame, giving the town a fast road link to London.

The station has a large car park, a taxi office, and regular buses into Thame.

Sustrans was allowed to re-use the former trackbed to create the Phoenix Trail which is part of National Cycle Network route 57.

Bentley Productions used Thame many times as a location for the Midsomer Murders drama series, representing the fictional town of Causton.

[33] Red Rose Travel route 40 links Thame with High Wycombe via Chinnor and Stokenchurch.

Buckinghamshire County Council still contracts operators to run subsidised bus routes, a few of which link local villages to Thame.

594 (Thame) Air Training Corps was formed in 1994, originally as a detached flight of 966 (Wallingford) Squadron.

The course was designed by Rees Jones and has hosted tournaments including the Benson & Hedges International Open from 1996 until 1999.

[49] Thame Leisure Centre, located on Oxford Road, has a 25-metre swimming pool, dance studio, gym and racquet sports facilities.

John Fothergill, innkeeper, entrepreneur and writer, owned and managed the Spread Eagle Hotel between 1922 and 1931.

[51] Violinist Alfredo Campoli (1906–91) was married at St Joseph's Catholic Church in 1942 and retired to Thame in 1986.

[53] Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees and his wife Dwina Murphy-Gibb lived in Prebendal House in Thame until his death in 2012.

[54] BBC actor, announcer, executive Harman Grisewood (1908–97) was brought up at the Prebendal House in the 1910s and 1920s.

[55] Poet and playwright W. B. Yeats (1865–1939) lived in the town for a short time at Cuttle Brook House, 42 Lower High Street.

Jonathan More and Matt Black, the duo who make up Coldcut both lived in Thame and attended LWS.