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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.
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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 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.
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 been
He was a Member of the European Parliament ( MEP ) from 1979 to 1984 and Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Wantage from 1983 to 2005, having been elected as a Conservative ; however, he joined the Labour Party in 2005.
It would have been a chapelry of the ecclesiastical parish of Wantage, of which Grove was a part until the 1830s.
Wantage and site
This site, north of Beemerville in Wantage Township, was once an ancient volcano.
The Wantage site was closed at the end of the summer term 2007.
Tracks were laid at Didcot in 1839 ( chosen as Lord Wantage did not want the railway passing close to Abingdon ) and for some time this seemed a more likely site.
Wantage and church
Alfred the Great, born in Wantage, was also closely connected with the church and mentioned it in his will.
Wantage and at
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.
The efforts at consolidation with surrounding Wantage Township ended in November 2009 after Wantage voters rejected the merger despite support from Sussex borough residents.
King Alfred the Great was born at the royal palace there in the 9th century Wantage appears in the Domesday Book of 1086.
Wantage is at the foot of the Berkshire Downs escarpment in the Vale of the White Horse, amidst prime horse racing country.
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.
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.
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.
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 ).
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.
Near Wantage, the route along the ridge of the Downs is known as The Ridgeway, and the name Icknield Way is applied to a parallel lowland route above the spring-line at the northern edge of the chalk.
She was educated at St Mary's School, Wantage and the Royal Academy of Music.
She was educated at St Mary's School, Wantage and Gordonstoun.
Asser, writing in about 893, believed that King Alfred the Great was born between 847 and 849 at Wantage in Berkshire.
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.
Thereafter he withdrew to Lambourn and stayed in " The King's Chamber " at Kingswood House, while the Royalist infantry were quartered in Lambourn and the cavalry at Wantage.
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 runs from Streatley at its junction with the A329 ( between Reading and Wallingford ) to Wantage, over the picturesque Berkshire Downs.
Wantage Hall, built 1908, is the oldest hall of residence at the University of Reading.
Wantage and century
In the 19th century, Lord Wantage became a notable local and national benefactor.
Lester Piggott was born in Wantage to a family that could trace its roots as jockeys and trainers back to the 18th century.
Wantage and England
Wantage is a market town and civil parish in the Vale of the White Horse, Oxfordshire, England.
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St Mary's School was an Anglican private girls ' school located in Wantage, Oxfordshire, England, between 1873 and 2007, when it merged with Heathfield School to become Heathfield St Mary's.
He then moved to England, where in July 2001 he scored an unbeaten 329 ( a Northamptonshire club record ) at Wantage Road in his side's 633 for six declared on the way to a 10-wicket victory.
The County Ground, is a cricket venue on Wantage Road in the Abington area of Northampton, England, UK.
Wantage and parish
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.
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 parish stretches from the northern edge of its housing up onto the Downs in the south, covering Chain Hill, Edge Hill, Wantage Down, Furzewick Down and Lattin Down.
Stanford in the Vale is a large village and civil parish about south-east of Faringdon and north-west of Wantage in the Vale of White Horse.
Grove is a village and civil parish on Letcombe Brook about north of Wantage in the Vale of White Horse.
Catmore is a civil parish and small village in West Berkshire about south-east of Wantage.
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.
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