Location of Wantage within the UK. Source: Ordnance Survey Open Names. Licence: Open Government Licence. Source: Ordnance Survey County Boundaries. Location of Wantage within Oxfordshire. Location of Wantage within OX Source: Wikipedia: List of postcode districts in the United Kingdom. Wantage is 8 miles west of Didcot. Wantage is 8 miles south-east of Faringdon.
Wantage is 8 miles south-west of Abingdon-on-Thames. Wantage is 13 miles north of Hungerford. Wantage is 13 miles east of Highworth. Wantage is 13 miles west of Wallingford. Wantage is 14 miles south-east of Lechlade-on-Thames. Wantage is 14 miles north of Newbury.
A series of walking routes are available — call into the Vale and Downland Museum in Church Street to pick up the maps or download at www. Wantage is most famous as the birthplace of Alfred the Great. A statue of King Alfred sculpted in by Count Gleichen, a relative of Queen Victoria, stands in the busy market place.
Alfred was born here in AD , when Wantage was an important Saxon town. The history of Wantage goes back long before the Saxon period. The chalk hills of the Vale are dotted with prehistoric remains and the Romans established a settlement here and built a road linking Wantage and Oxford.
Sir John Betjamen lived in Wantage between and For more information visit www. It is now open as a museum and canal information centre. It contains displays on the history of the canal, wharf and the building itself and other associated industrial archaeology. The building was originally used as a weighbridge, coal merchants and a place where traders could hire sacks to send their produce around the south west of England.
The enamel sign on the front is from the sack hiring company. Open from 10am to 2pm on the first and third Wednesdays and Saturdays of each month and occasional special occasions. Entrance is free but donations are welcomed. Grove is a village and civil parish on Letcombe Brook, about 1. Historically, a part of Berkshire until the boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire. We have restored the original tack…. A unique exhibition of paintings by Anish Kapoor b. There is a Dickensian Evening before Christmas when shops open late and the Town Mayor and Town Crier lead the townspeople and visitors around the town.
John Betjeman , Poet Laureate, lived in the town for many years and wrote a number of poems about Wantage and the surrounding areas for example "Wantage Bells" and "On Leaving Wantage". A Betjeman Memorial Park with a statue of the poet and several displays of his better known works occupies a wooded area a short distance from Wantage Church.
The origins of Wantage are lost in the mist of pre-history but pot sherds found by residents when digging their gardens betray the importance of Wantage as a Roman settlement. Nearby villa sites and burials confirm the significance of this evidence and an important Roman road ran south from Oxford through Frilford to Wantage.
Wantage appears in the great Domesday survey of The manor eventually passed to the Fitzwaryn family. The town developed at a slower rate than Abingdon, maintaining older fashions of architecture for a longer period than its neighbour.
From the early 17th century, it became a large centre for the processing of leather with all the pollution and smells that this trade brought. Established Info Services. Wantage Tourist Information and Travel Guide.
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