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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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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 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 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.
Grove has lately been a site of extensive housing development, greatly increasing its size and almost merging with the nearby town of Wantage.
The village is about south of the Oxfordshire town of Wantage.
St Mary's was sited just outside the town of Wantage.
Wantage and between
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 quickest scheduled bus journey between Wantage and Oxford takes about 45 minutes, the slowest can take over 1 hour 15 minutes.
Asser, writing in about 893, believed that King Alfred the Great was born between 847 and 849 at Wantage in Berkshire.
Other canal freight also declined, and between 1893 and 1896 just 48 tons were shipped between Shrivenham and Wantage.
In 1770 the turnpike road was built as a more direct route between Wantage and Oxford.
Its main route passed through the village and a branch of the canal was built between Grove and Wantage.
It runs from Streatley at its junction with the A329 ( between Reading and Wallingford ) to Wantage, over the picturesque Berkshire Downs.
It is located in the West Berkshire district, north of the M4 motorway lying just off the road between Newbury about to the south-southeast and Wantage about
It is situated off the A338 between Great Shefford and Wantage, just south of its counterpart Fawley, or North Fawley, in the West Berkshire district.
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.
It is located in the west of the district of West Berkshire, close to the Berkshire-Oxfordshire border near the Ridgeway, and just off the A338 between Great Shefford and 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.
Wantage and from
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.
Sussex was incorporated as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on October 14, 1891, as Deckertown, from portions of Wantage.
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.
Attending the school are students from Branchville, Frankford Township, Lafayette Township, Sussex and from Wantage Township.
Attending the school are students from Branchville, Frankford Township, Lafayette Township, Sussex Borough and from Wantage Township.
Category: People from 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.
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.
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.
* 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.
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.
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