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

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.

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.

Until 1974, Wantage had two local government councils: Wantage Rural District, which had its headquarters in Belmont, Wantage and Wantage Urban District, which had its headquarters in Portway.

Both sides were heading for Newbury, on roughly parallel routes ; the Royalists ' route took them through Faringdon and Wantage, increasing the distance they would have to travel to while the Parliamentarians had to travel only 20.

Private's Progress, a feature film starring Ian Carmichael and Richard Attenborough had scenes filmed in and around Wantage Hall.

Wantage is famous as the birthplace of King Alfred the Great, while Wallingford has had a Royal Charter since 1155.

However, Jackson defected to the Labour Party in 2005, and so Wantage unexpectedly had a Labour MP.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 would have been a chapelry of the ecclesiastical parish of Wantage, of which Grove was a part until the 1830s.

Wantage Hall's facilities include the dining hall which is wood panelled and lined with portraits of Lord and Lady Wantage and various Vice Chancellors of the University.

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.

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

As of March 23, 2011, out of a 2010 Census population of 11, 358 in Wantage, there were 7, 397 registered voters ( 65. 1 % of the population, vs. 65. 8 % in all of Sussex County ).

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.

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.

Other canal freight also declined, and between 1893 and 1896 just 48 tons were shipped between Shrivenham and Wantage.

They were then bought by Lord Wantage VC who presented them to the Wantage town council in 1900.

The common lands of Wantage and Grove were enclosed by an Act of Parliament passed in 1803.

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.

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.

The quickest scheduled bus journey between Wantage and Oxford takes about 45 minutes, the slowest can take over 1 hour 15 minutes.

It runs from Streatley at its junction with the A329 ( between Reading and Wallingford ) to Wantage, over the picturesque Berkshire Downs.

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.

Sussex was incorporated as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on October 14, 1891, as Deckertown, from portions of Wantage.

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.

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.

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.

The area for the Wantage development is farmland and used by local walkers, cyclists and dog owners ( Source: Oxford Mail 8th December 2009 ).

A regular bus service to Wantage and Faringdon is also provided by RH Transport.

Faringdon is connected to Wantage by a regular bus service operated by RH Transport.

A service to Wantage is also provided by the Stanford in the Vale Community Bus.

The hall was donated by Lady Harriet Wantage in memory of her husband Lord Robert Loyd-Lindsay, 1st Baron Wantage.

Established by Roy Hunt, a former cricket enthusiast, to challenge the local Wantage 41 club in an annual game, it was from here that the club grew and expanded into a properly organised team.