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 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.

Alfred was born in the village of Wanating, now Wantage, Oxfordshire.

Statues of Alfred in Winchester and Wantage portray him as a great warrior.

The English king Æthelred the Unready set up an early legal system through the Wantage Code of Ethelred, one provision of which stated that the twelve leading thegns ( minor nobles ) of each wapentake ( a small district ) were required to swear that they would investigate crimes without a bias.

" The resulting Wantage Code code formally recognized legal customs that were part of the Danelaw.

In 1402 ( aged 52 ) he had married Alice, daughter of Sir Ivo FitzWarin ( or Fitzwarren ) of Wantage in Berkshire ( now Oxfordshire ), but she predeceased him in 1411.

* St. Mary's School, Wantage, Berkshire ( now Oxfordshire ), 1874 – 75

* St. Mary's Convent, Wantage, Berkshire ( now Oxfordshire ): Noviciate, 1878

This site, north of Beemerville in Wantage Township, was once an ancient volcano.

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 route becomes Clove Avenue before crossing back into Wantage Township.

In Wantage Township, Route 23 continues north through farmland and woodland, eventually turning west.

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.

Attending the school are students from Branchville, Frankford Township, Lafayette Township, Sussex Borough and Wantage Township.

For grades 9-12, public school students attend High Point Regional High School, located in 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.

Clifton E. Lawrence School in Wantage ( 569 students ; grades Kingergarten to 2 ),

Attending the school are students from Branchville, Frankford Township, Lafayette Township, Sussex and from Wantage Township.