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Other significant roads radiating from Newbury include the A339 which now includes the renumbered part of the old A34 through the town centre and then heads towards Basingstoke and the M3 motorway, the A343 to Andover, the B4000 to Lambourn, the B4494 to Wantage and the B4009 to Streatley.
Notable current and former residents of Wantage include:

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Wantage Hall, built 1908, is the oldest hall of residence at the University of Reading.
The hall was donated by Lady Harriet Wantage in memory of her husband Lord Robert Loyd-Lindsay, 1st Baron Wantage.

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The English king Æthelred the Unready set up an early legal system through the Wantage Code of Ethelred, one provision of which stated that the twelve leading thegns ( minor nobles ) of each wapentake ( a small district ) were required to swear that they would investigate crimes without a bias.
An early reference to a jury type group in England is in a decree issued by Aethelred at Wantage ( 997 ), which enacted that in every Hundred " the twelve leading thegns together with the reeve shall go out and swear on the relics which are given into their hands, that they will not accuse any innocent man nor shield a guilty one.
Route 23 crosses the Wallkill River into Wantage Township and continues north to an intersection with County Route 565 ( Glenwood Road ), running concurrent with that route and gaining a wide painted median past that intersection which eventually turns into a center left-turn lane.
Vernon is bordered by Hardyston Township and Wantage Township, all of which are within Sussex County.
These events hampered Pococke in his studies, or so he complained in the preface to his Eutychius ; he resented the attempts to remove him from his parish of Childrey, a college living near Wantage in North Berkshire ( now Oxfordshire ) which he had accepted in 1643.
Wantage once had two breweries which were taken over by Morlands of Abingdon.
Until 1974, Wantage had two local government councils: Wantage Rural District, which had its headquarters in Belmont, Wantage and Wantage Urban District, which had its headquarters in Portway.
The proposed Wantage development is one mile from a similar mass of 2, 500 homes proposed for the village of Grove and which will use same road network.
Wantage has a memorial park named after him, which includes extracts from his poems in a peaceful wooded area.
Constantine was privately educated at boarding schools including Queen's Gate School in South Kensington, London and the £ 20, 000-per-year St Mary's School in Wantage, Oxfordshire which was run by Anglican nuns.
The last night the King's head-quarters were at Wantage and Lamborne ... all the foot that which lay at Lamborne marcht away this morning towards Auborne ".
It would have been a chapelry of the ecclesiastical parish of Wantage, of which Grove was a part until the 1830s.
The village of Chaddleworth lies below the southern slopes of the Berkshire Downs, just east of the A338 road, which runs between Hungerford and Wantage to form the western parish boundary.

Wantage and is
The figure is situated on the upper slopes of White Horse Hill in the English civil parish of Uffington ( in the county of Oxfordshire, historically Berkshire ), some south of the town of Faringdon and a similar distance west of the town of Wantage.
Wantage Township is a Township in Sussex County, New Jersey, United States.
Wantage Township is governed under the Township form of government with a three-member Township Committee.
Wantage Township is in the 5th Congressional district.
Wantage is in the
On the national level, Wantage is a stronghold for the Republican Party.
Sussex Airport, a small general aviation airport, is located in Wantage Township.
Unionville is adjacent to the Town of Wantage in New Jersey.
Cirencester is the hub of a significant road network with important routes to Gloucester ( A417 ), Cheltenham ( A435 ), Warwick ( A429 ), Oxford ( A40 via the B4425 road ), Wantage ( A417 ), Swindon ( A419 ), Chippenham ( A429 ), Bristol, Bath ( A433 ), and Stroud ( A419 ).
Wantage is a market town and civil parish in the Vale of the White Horse, Oxfordshire, England.
Wantage was a small Roman settlement but the origin of the toponym is somewhat uncertain.
Wantage is at the foot of the Berkshire Downs escarpment in the Vale of the White Horse, amidst prime horse racing country.
Because of its central location in the Vale and proximity to the Downs, Wantage tends to be the main touring centre for the area and is home to the Vale and Downland Museum.
Wantage is the ' Alfredston ' of Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure.
Wantage is at the crossing of the B4507 valley road, the A417 road between Reading and Cirencester and the A338 road between Hungerford ( and junction 14 of the M4 motorway ) and Oxford.
The regular local bus route 38 linking Wantage, Challow, Childrey, Chilton and Grove is operated by White's Coaches under contract to Oxfordshire County Council.
Wantage Road railway station on the Great Western Main Line was at Grove about north of the town, on what is now the A338 road.
There is one state secondary school in Wantage, King Alfred's College, and some ten primary schools.
As of 2007, Wantage is developing and changing.
An action group, Wantage Rejuvenated, is being sponsored by the town's chamber of commerce to try to bring business back into the area and inject new life into the town.
Following initial planning permissions for conversion, Vanderbilt applied to have the buildings completely demolished, prompting a local petition and campaign for the application to be refused at the discretion of the Town Council, as although the building is old, it is not listed ( Source: Wantage and Grove Review Issue No 401, 3rd October 2011 ).

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NJ 23 northbound along its concurrency with CR 519 in Wantage Township
The efforts at consolidation with surrounding Wantage Township ended in November 2009 after Wantage voters rejected the merger despite support from Sussex borough residents.
Students in public school for kindergarten through eighth grade attend the Sussex-Wantage Regional School District, together with children from Wantage Township.
The main canal was long, with branches totalling to Chippenham, Calne, Wantage and Longcot.
Wantage has a town council consisting of sixteen councillors, eleven of whom ( as of 2011 ) are Conservatives with the remaining five councillors being made up of four Liberal Democrats and one Labour Party.
Regular bus services link Wantage with Oxford, Didcot, Abingdon and Faringdon.
The Wantage Tramway used to link the town with Wantage Road.
Wantage has been the site of a church since at least the 10th century and the present Church of England parish church of Saints Peter and Paul dates from the 13th century, with many additions since.
A water-powered mill with an undershot water wheel still stands from the time that Wantage was a major centre of the wool trade following the building of the Wilts and Berks Canal at the end of the 18th century.
Wantage is twinned with:
* Article about Anglo Saxon Wantage with maps indicating street layout with the Icknield Way and a street with the name ( Ickleton ) clearly derived from it.
At Wantage Road he impressed with his fired-up seam bowling and his hard-hitting in the low middle-order.
Alfred the Great, born in Wantage, was also closely connected with the church and mentioned it in his will.
Grove has lately been a site of extensive housing development, greatly increasing its size and almost merging with the nearby town of Wantage.
It runs from Streatley at its junction with the A329 ( between Reading and Wallingford ) to Wantage, over the picturesque Berkshire Downs.
Wantage informs Maturin of a rumpus in the town: a fight between Protestant mariners from a Boston barque clash with the Catholic locals over the right of polygamy.

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