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 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

The route becomes Clove Avenue before crossing back into Wantage Township.

In 1770 the turnpike road was built as a more direct route between Wantage and Oxford.

This was a single track laid alongside the turnpike road linking Wantage Road Station and Wantage.

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

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.