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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.
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Since 1848, Wantage has been home to the Community of Saint Mary the Virgin, one of the largest communities of Anglican nuns in the world.
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.
Wantage Town has a Non-League football club Wantage Town F. C.
Wantage has a memorial park named after him, which includes extracts from his poems in a peaceful wooded area.
* Amnesty International UK has a South Midlands region that stretches from Newbury, Reading and Bracknell in the south to Bicester and Bedford in the north ; and from Wantage in the west, to Stevenage, Letchworth, Welwyn and Hatfield in the east.
Oxfordshire County Council has a policy to seek a new station to be built to serve Wantage and Grove.
Grove has lately been a site of extensive housing development, greatly increasing its size and almost merging with the nearby town of Wantage.
Wantage is famous as the birthplace of King Alfred the Great, while Wallingford has had a Royal Charter since 1155.
This turns out to be the pretty but orphaned and shy Hero Wantage, who has secretly loved him since they were children, and who now lives with one of his neighbours in the position of Cinderella, complete with Ugly Sisters.
Wantage and town
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.
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.
Wantage is a market town and civil parish in the Vale of the White Horse, Oxfordshire, England.
Weekly trading rights were first granted to the town by Henry III in 1246 Markets are now held twice weekly on Wednesdays and Saturdays Royalist troops were stationed in Wantage during the English Civil War.
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.
The Wantage Tramway used to link the town with Wantage Road.
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.
* John Betjeman, Poet Laureate from 1972 to 1984, lived in Wantage and his book, ' Archie and the Strict Baptists ' is based in the town.
In 1933 the family moved to the market town of Wantage in what was then Berkshire, where Cyril took up the position of Chaplain at St Mary's, Wantage and Gardner was educated at the local King Alfred's School.
They were then bought by Lord Wantage VC who presented them to the Wantage town council in 1900.
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.
The village is about south of the Oxfordshire town of Wantage.
St Mary's was sited just outside the town of Wantage.
Wantage and 2011
, members of the Wantage Township Committee are Mayor Bill DeBoer ( R, term ends December 31, 2011 ), Deputy Mayor Bill Gaechter ( R, 2012 ) and Ronald Bassani ( R, 2013 ).
As of March 23, 2011, out of a 2010 Census population of 11, 358 in Wantage, there were 7, 397 registered voters ( 65. 1 % of the population, vs. 65. 8 % in all of Sussex County ).
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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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.
Attending the school are students from Branchville, Frankford Township, Lafayette Township, Sussex Borough and Wantage Township.
Attending the school are students from Branchville, Frankford Township, Lafayette Township, Sussex Borough and from Wantage Township.
Attending the school are students from Branchville, Frankford Township, Lafayette Township, Sussex Borough and from Wantage Township.
Attending the school are students from Branchville, Frankford Township, Lafayette Township, Sussex and from Wantage Township.
Vernon is bordered by Hardyston Township and Wantage Township, all of which are within Sussex County.
Attending the school are students from Branchville, Frankford Township, Lafayette Township, Sussex Borough and from Wantage Township.
The constituencies bordering Newbury ( clockwise from north ) are: Wantage, Henley, Reading West, Wokingham, Basingstoke, North West Hampshire, and Devizes.
There are three market towns in the constituency: Faringdon, Wallingford and Wantage.
Old girls of St Mary's Wantage are known as ' SMOGs '.
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NJ 23 northbound along its concurrency with CR 519 in Wantage Township
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.
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.
Wantage Township is governed under the Township form of government with a three-member Township Committee.
The main canal was long, with branches totalling to Chippenham, Calne, Wantage and Longcot.
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 ).
Regular bus services link Wantage with Oxford, Didcot, Abingdon and Faringdon.
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.
It runs from Streatley at its junction with the A329 ( between Reading and Wallingford ) to Wantage, over the picturesque Berkshire Downs.
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