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 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.

Vernon is bordered by Hardyston Township and Wantage Township, all of which are within Sussex County.

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 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 ).

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.

In Wantage, in 1877 he paid for a marble statue of King Alfred by Count Gleichen to be erected in the market place, where it still stands today.

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.

In Wantage, it negotiates the market place ( around King Alfred's statue and thence to Faringdon, via Stanford in the Vale ( speed-limited here to ).

There are three market towns in the constituency: Faringdon, Wallingford and 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.

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.

The Wantage Tramway used to link the town with Wantage Road.

* John Betjeman, Poet Laureate from 1972 to 1984, lived in Wantage and his book, ' Archie and the Strict Baptists ' is based in the town.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.