Thame (pronounced "Tame", with a silent "h")'s a town in Oxfordshire about southwest of Aylesbury. It derives its toponym from the River Thame which flows past the north side of the town. History until the eighteenth century Thame was founded in Anglo-Saxon times and was in the kingdom of Wessex. Thame Abbey was founded in 1138 for the Cistercian Order: the abbey church was consecrated in 1145. In the Dissolution of the Monasteries the abbey was suppressed and the church demolished. Thame Park… (More on Thame)