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

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

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 main canal was long, with branches totalling to Chippenham, Calne, Wantage and Longcot.

He was born in Wantage in the English county of Berkshire ( now Oxfordshire ).

Wantage was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire.

King Alfred the Great was born at the royal palace there in the 9th century Wantage appears in the Domesday Book of 1086.

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 tramway's Wantage terminus was in Mill Street and its building survives, but little trace remains of the route.

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.

* King Alfred the Great was born in Wantage in 849.

* Joseph Butler ( 1692 – 1752 ), Bishop of Bristol, Bishop of Durham, and author of ' The Analogy of Religion ', was born and educated in Wantage.

* Frances O ' Connor, Anglo-Australian actor, was born in Wantage in 1967.

* Lester Piggott, jockey, was born in Wantage in 1935.

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.

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.

At the 1983 general election, he was elected to the House of Commons as MP for Wantage.

In later years, conventional housing was provided on estates built in Abingdon, Grove ( near Wantage ) and Newbury for employees.

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.

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.

Sussex Airport, a small general aviation airport, is located in Wantage Township.

Catmore is a civil parish and small village in West Berkshire about south-east of Wantage.

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.

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 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.

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.