Places to see in ( Wantage - UK )
Places to see in ( Wantage - UK )
Wantage is a market town and civil parish in the Vale of the White Horse, Oxfordshire, England. The town is on Letcombe Brook, about 8 miles south-west of Abingdon, 10 miles west of Didcot, 15 miles (24 km) south-west of Oxford and 14 miles (23 km) north north-west of Newbury.
Historically part of Berkshire, it is notable as the birthplace of King Alfred the Great in 849. In 1974 the area administered by Berkshire County Council was greatly reduced, and Wantage, in common with other territories South of the River Thames, became part of a considerably enlarged Oxfordshire.
Wantage was a small Roman settlement but the origin of the toponym is somewhat uncertain. It is generally thought to be from an Old English phrase meaning decreasing river. King Alfred the Great was born at the royal palace there in the 9th century. Wantage appears in the Domesday Book of 1086. Its value was £61 and it was in the king's ownership until Richard I passed it to the Earl of Albemarle in 1190.
In 1877 he paid for a marble statue of King Alfred by Count Gleichen to be erected in Wantage market place, where it still stands today. He also donated the Victoria Cross Gallery to the town. This contained paintings by Louis William Desanges depicting deeds which led to the award of a number of VCs, including his own gained during the Crimean War. It is now a shopping arcade. Since 1848, Wantage has been home to the Community of Saint Mary the Virgin, one of the largest communities of Anglican nuns in the world. Wantage once had two breweries which were taken over by Morlands of Abingdon.
Wantage is at the foot of the Berkshire Downs escarpment in the Vale of the White Horse. There are gallops at Black Bushes and nearby villages with racing stables at East Hendred, Letcombe Bassett, Lockinge and Uffington. Wantage includes the suburbs of Belmont to the west and Charlton to the east. Grove to the north is still just about detached and is a separate parish. 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. The Edgehill Springs rise between Manor Road and Spike Lodge Farms and the Letcombe Brook flows through the town. Wantage is home to the Vale and Downland Museum. There is a large market square containing a statue of King Alfred, surrounded by shops some with 18th-century facades. Quieter streets radiate from it, including one towards the large Church of England parish church. 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. Bus services link Wantage with Oxford as well as other towns and villages including Abingdon, Didcot, Faringdon and Grove. Stagecoach in Oxfordshire provide the main services between Wantage and Oxford with up to three buses per hour Monday to Saturday and up to two buses per hour on Sunday's and bank holidays, operated under Stagecoach's luxury Stagecoach Gold brand. Stagecoach provides a late-night service on Friday and Saturday evenings with buses running to Oxford until 2am and buses from Oxford to Wantage until 3am.
Wantage does not have a railway station; Didcot Parkway, 8 miles to the east, is the nearest station, with services towards London, Bristol and Cardiff. The Great Western Mainline is just north of Grove (2 miles North of Wantage) where the former Wantage Road railway station used to be. It was closed during the Beeching cuts in 1964. The Wantage Tramway used to link Wantage with Wantage Road station. The tramway's Wantage terminus was in Mill Street and its building survives, but little trace remains of the route. 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. SS Peter and Paul also contains seventeen 15th-century misericords.
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Places to see in ( Wantage - UK )
Places to see in ( Wantage - UK )
Wantage is a market town and civil parish in the Vale of the White Horse, Oxfordshire, England. The town is on Letcombe Brook, about 8 miles south-west of Abingdon, 10 miles west of Didcot, 15 miles (24 km) south-west of Oxford and 14 miles (23 km) north north-west of Newbury.
Historically part of Berkshire, it is notable as the birthplace of King Alfred the Great in 849. In 1974 the area administered by Berkshire County Council was greatly reduced, and Wantage, in common with other territories South of the River Thames, became part of a considerably enlarged Oxfordshire.
Wantage was a small Roman settlement but the origin of the toponym is somewhat uncertain. It is generally thought to be from an Old English phrase meaning decreasing river. King Alfred the Great was born at the royal palace there in the 9th century. Wantage appears in the Domesday Book of 1086. Its value was £61 and it was in the king's ownership until Richard I passed it to the Earl of Albemarle in 1190.
In 1877 he paid for a marble statue of King Alfred by Count Gleichen to be erected in Wantage market place, where it still stands today. He also donated the Victoria Cross Gallery to the town. This contained paintings by Louis William Desanges depicting deeds which led to the award of a number of VCs, including his own gained during the Crimean War. It is now a shopping arcade. Since 1848, Wantage has been home to the Community of Saint Mary the Virgin, one of the largest communities of Anglican nuns in the world. Wantage once had two breweries which were taken over by Morlands of Abingdon.
Wantage is at the foot of the Berkshire Downs escarpment in the Vale of the White Horse. There are gallops at Black Bushes and nearby villages with racing stables at East Hendred, Letcombe Bassett, Lockinge and Uffington. Wantage includes the suburbs of Belmont to the west and Charlton to the east. Grove to the north is still just about detached and is a separate parish. 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. The Edgehill Springs rise between Manor Road and Spike Lodge Farms and the Letcombe Brook flows through the town. Wantage is home to the Vale and Downland Museum. There is a large market square containing a statue of King Alfred, surrounded by shops some with 18th-century facades. Quieter streets radiate from it, including one towards the large Church of England parish church. 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. Bus services link Wantage with Oxford as well as other towns and villages including Abingdon, Didcot, Faringdon and Grove. Stagecoach in Oxfordshire provide the main services between Wantage and Oxford with up to three buses per hour Monday to Saturday and up to two buses per hour on Sunday's and bank holidays, operated under Stagecoach's luxury Stagecoach Gold brand. Stagecoach provides a late-night service on Friday and Saturday evenings with buses running to Oxford until 2am and buses from Oxford to Wantage until 3am.
Wantage does not have a railway station; Didcot Parkway, 8 miles to the east, is the nearest station, with services towards London, Bristol and Cardiff. The Great Western Mainline is just north of Grove (2 miles North of Wantage) where the former Wantage Road railway station used to be. It was closed during the Beeching cuts in 1964. The Wantage Tramway used to link Wantage with Wantage Road station. The tramway's Wantage terminus was in Mill Street and its building survives, but little trace remains of the route. 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. SS Peter and Paul also contains seventeen 15th-century misericords.
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Top 10 PRETTIEST Towns in OXFORDSHIRE
What are the 10 prettiest towns in the county of Oxfordshire? To determine this, I visited them all. Here's what I found out.
As a disclaimer, this list is neither a social commentary, nor a guide on which are the nicest towns to live, but purely a judgement on the aesthetics of each respective town centre.
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10 Most Hated Towns in England
What are the most hated towns in England? No matter how good a country is, every part of it can’t be loved equally. In fact, some parts of it are bound to be hated. Even the most fanatic lover of a country will love some parts of it less than others. I have heard some people complaining about some towns in England, the home of the Queen that some people are dying to live and work in. That prompts research into the 10 most hated towns in England.
This ranking is based mainly on the comments and complaints of residents of England and visitors to those towns. But it’s not limited to that since some complaints can be completely baseless. We dig deeper in researching these 10 most hated towns in England.
10. Slough
Let’s begin with Slough, a town in Berkshire, within the historic county of Buckinghamshire. This town is 20 miles west of central London and 19 miles northeast of Reading. You will find the town in the Thames Valley and within the London metropolis around the area at the intersection of the M4.
In spite of its location, Slough according to those visitors, is a town whose streets are littered with empty takeaway and full of packets or empty beer cans. This assertion hasn’t been contradicted by even just one resident. The quality of food in the town’s restaurants appears, kind of, made for losers who’re just out to eat as much unhealthy food as they can get away with.
9. Scunthorpe
It’s not desirable to find Scunthorpe among the most hated towns in England. Unfortunately, we can’t afford to take it out of our list because the facts obviously place it there. This industrial town in the unitary authority of North Lincolnshire should normally be the pride of Lincolnshire as its main administrative center. But the town with an estimated population of 82,334 in 2016 had many things going against it.
Residents of the UK’s largest steel processing center, also known as the Industrial Garden Town, are frustrated by a lack of the liveliness and diversity in the town only known for work. However, the loudest grouse that lists Scunthorpe alongside the most hated towns in England is the indiscriminate censorship and blocking of websites for spurious reasons.
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Places to see in ( Didcot - UK )
Places to see in ( Didcot - UK )
Didcot is a railway town and civil parish in the administrative county of Oxfordshire, England, 10 miles south of Oxford, 8 miles east of Wantage and 15 miles north west of Reading. Didcot is noted for its railway heritage, having been a station on Brunel's Great Western Main Line from London Paddington, opening in 1844.
Today the town is known for its railway museum and power stations, and is the gateway town to the Science Vale: three large science and technology centres in the surrounding villages of Milton (Milton Park), Culham (Culham Science Centre) and Harwell (Harwell Science and Innovation Campus which includes the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory). The town was historically part of Berkshire until 1974 when there was county boundary change due to the Local Government Act 1972.
The area around present-day Didcot has been inhabited for at least 9000 years; a large-scale archaeological dig between 2010 and 2013 produced finds from the Mesolithic, Neolithic, Iron Age and Bronze Ages. In the 1500s Didcot was a small village of landowners, tenants and tradespeople with a population of around 120. The oldest house still standing in Didcot is White Cottage, a Grade II listed wood shingle roofed, timber-framed building on Manor Road which was built in the early 16th century.
Didcot's junction of the routes to London, Bristol, Oxford and to Southampton via the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway (DN&S) made the town militarily important, especially during the First World War campaign on the Western Front and the Second World War preparations for D-Day.
Formed by the Great Western Society in 1967 to house its collection of Great Western Railway locomotives and rolling stock, now housed in Didcot's 1932-built Great Western engine shed. The station was originally called Didcot but then renamed Didcot Parkway in 1985 by British Rail; the site of the old GWR provender stores, which had been demolished in 1976 (the provender pond was kept to maintain the water table) was made into a large car park to attract passengers from the surrounding area. An improvement programme for the forecourt of the station began in September 2012 and was expected to take around fifteen months. This was viewed as being the first phase of better connecting the station to Didcot town centre.
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ENGLAND's Expensive Seaside Towns: The 5 Best Places to Live
In this video, we're going to take a look at some of the most expensive seaside towns in England. These towns offer some of the best scenery in the country and very high living costs.
If you're looking for a place to call home, check out these five expensive seaside towns in England. From stunning architecture to amazing beaches, these towns have it all! While these towns may be expensive, the benefits of living there are worth it!
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Located in the county of Oxfordshire, and around 15 miles southwest of Oxford, is the town of Wantage. Historically it was part of Berkshire until 1974.
The first recorded reference to the town goes back to the 8th century, where it was written as 'Wandesiege', allegedly deriving from Old English for 'decreasing river'.
In 849 AD Alfred the Great was born in Wantage. In 871 he became King of Wessex, and by 886 he was dubbed King of the Anglo-Saxons. His rule proved pivotal as he was able to limit the progress of the Viking invasions by establishing 'burhs' i.e. fortified settlements. Two of his children would continue in this regard, as his son Edward the Elder succeeded as King of the Anglo-Saxons in 899, while his daughter Æthelflæd became Queen of Mercia from 911. It was in the early 10th century that the Viking threat was largely subdued during the respective rule of these two siblings following the establishment of more burhs, particularly around the frontier of Mercia and the Danelaw, although it would return later. Alfred also revolutionised education by ensuring that it was conducted in English, thus not limiting it to Latin-speakers.
In 1246 a market charter was granted to Wantage by Henry III. At the heart of the town, and just west of the market place, is the Church of St Peter and St Paul. This dates from the late 13th century, with 15th century additions.
In 1875 the Wantage Tramway opened. This transported passengers and goods between the town and Wantage Road station, which was located in the neighbouring village of Grove, about two miles to the north. The tramway closed to passengers in 1925, and to goods in 1945. Wantage Road station closed in the 1960s as part of the Beeching cuts - a controversial scheme to encourage road travel by closing over 2,000 railway stations in Great Britain. Today, public transport to Wantage consists of direct buses from Oxford, Abingdon, Didcot, Faringdon and various local towns and villages.
Historically, Wantage was part of the county of Berkshire up until 1974 when, under local government reorganisation, it became part of Oxfordshire and the seat of the Vale of White Horse District Council.
Famous people from Wantage, aside from Alfred the Great, include jockey Lester Piggott.
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Filmed: 24th June 2023
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0:00 Wallingford Street
2:18 Newbury Street
3:56 Market Place
5:55 Church Street
6:08 Church of St Peter and St Paul
6:18 Church Street
8:03 Market Place
9:12 Alfred the Great Statue
9:34 Market Place
10:31 Mill Street
10:49 Grove Street
12:40 Mill Street
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Video Diary - 19th April 2022 - Wantage
This is just some of what I did on this day, a short visit to Wantage which is in the County of Oxfordshire, it's the birthplace of Alfred the Great (King of Wessex)
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Places to see in ( Faringdon - UK )
Places to see in ( Faringdon - UK )
Faringdon is a historic market town in the Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England, about 18 miles southwest of Oxford, 10 miles northwest of Wantage, 34 miles northwest of Reading and 12 miles east-northeast of Swindon. The civil parish is formally called Great Faringdon, to distinguish it from Little Faringdon in West Oxfordshire. The 2011 Census recorded its population as 7,121.
It is a large parish, its lowest parts extending to the River Thames in the north and its highest ground reaching the Ridgeway in the south. It was the westernmost town in Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to the administrative county of Oxfordshire.
On 1 February 2004, Faringdon was granted Fairtrade Town status, becoming the first Fairtrade Town in South East England. Faringdon is the base for the Faringdon Enterprise Gateway, which is run by the South East England Development Agency to help and advise businesses in rural west Oxfordshire.
The town was granted a weekly market in 1218, and as a result came to be called Chipping Faringdon. The weekly market is still held today. King John also established an abbey in Faringdon in 1202, (probably on the site of Portwell House) but it soon moved to Beaulieu in Hampshire. In 1417 the aged Archbishop of Dublin, Thomas Cranley, died in Faringdon while journeying to London.
Just east of the town is Folly Hill or Faringdon Hill, a Greensand outcrop (at grid reference SU298957). In common with Badbury Hill to the west of the town, it has an ancient ditched defensive ring (hill fort). This was fortified by supporters of Matilda sometime during the Anarchy (1135–1141) – her campaign to claim the throne from King Stephen – but was soon razed to the ground by Stephen. Oliver Cromwell fortified it in his unsuccessful campaign to defeat the Royalist garrison at Faringdon House.
There is a manor house and estate, close to the edge of Faringdon, called Faringdon House. The original house was damaged during the civil war. Its owner at the time, Sir Robert Pye, who was a Royalist, was put under siege by his own son Robert who was a Parliamentarian colonel.
Faringdon is linked with Swindon and Oxford by the half-hourly 66 bus service run by Stagecoach in Swindon. Faringdon is linked with Wantage by the regular 67 bus service operated by Thames Travel. A 3.5 miles (5.6 km) Faringdon branch line was opened in 1864, between Faringdon and the Great Western Railway (GWR) at Uffington, with construction funded by the Faringdon Railway Company (bought outright by the GWR in 1886).
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Driving in Wantage, Oxfordshire | 4K 60fps
Driving through the heart of Wantage, England, in our latest 4K driving video. This immersive experience captures the town's historic charm as we navigate its streets and showcase the everyday beauty that defines Wantage.
Filmed in stunning 4K resolution, this driving video provides a vivid exploration of Wantage's landscape.
Whether you're a local missing the familiar scenes or a viewer seeking the tranquil allure of an English town, this video promises a visually pleasing drive through Wantage in breathtaking 4K clarity. Join us for a journey through modern English serenity, one frame at a time.
Is THIS the best place in the UK to hike? 😮
The sun's out, so once again we're off for an explore. We headed to nearby Wootton for a hike, but didn't know there are two Woottons in the Oxford area & went to the wrong one! However this one had its charm - a 8.2k hike through beautiful woodland, fields, farmland and hills, although our picnic was gatecrashed by the local wildlife!
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Oxfordshire Man Visits East Garston, Wantage and Segsbury Camp
So in this video I visit 3 places, 1 in Berkshire and 2 in Oxfordshire.
East Garston is a village in the county of Berkshire, my great Uncle (Bill Frankum) lived there pretty much all his life, he wrote a poem, you can read the full poem here -
I then drive the 10 miles or so to Wantage in Oxfordshire, this is the birth place of King Alfred the Great, he was the only King to be called The Great Here's some information about him -
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The Ridgeway, Through Wantage to Faringdon Driving Hyperlapse Video
A timewarp driving video from the B4494 on The Ridgeway near Wantage, Oxfordshire, through Wantage Market Square and along the A417, through Stanford-in-the-Vale.
The drive then takes us right onto the A420, then left at London Street, where we do a tour of Faringdon, through the Market Place and around the town.
00:00 - Parked up above The Ridgeway
00:10 - Chain Hill, B4494 towards Wantage
00:22 - Wantage
00:32 - Wantage Market Square
00:51 - East Challow
01:01 - West Challow
01:22 - Stanford in the Vale
01:46 - Turning right on to the Oxford bound side of the A420
01:51 - Turning left onto London Street, Faringdon
02:01 - Faringdon Market Town
02:11 - Gravel Walk, Faringdon
02:21 - Faringdon Market Square & Town Hall
02:31 - Coach Lane, Faringdon towards The Folly Inn
02:41 - Ferndale Street, Faringdon
02:51 - Coxwell Street, onto Coxwell Road, Faringdon
03:01 - Folly View Road, onto Marlborough Gardens, Faringdon
03:12 - Right onto Park Road, A417
03:22 - Left to Waitrose, Aldi, Home Bargains, Travelodge, Costa
03:37 - Right back onto Park Road towards Faringdon
03:49 - Right into Tesco Faringdon carpark
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Ardington Model Village , Tomb of Pioneering Lord Wantage
Robert James Loyd-Lindsay otherwise known as Lord Wantage won a VC at the Battle of Alma, helped found the Red Cross, and was a benefactor to Wantage and the surrounding area he lived in nearby Lockinge but is buried in the Holy Trinity Church of Ardington. In the video you see his grave and those of the other family members. Also to be seen is possibly the smallest police station in England and the The Boar's Head.
Great place to visit and walk through or to start a walk from.
Milton Park | Excellent Bus Connections from Oxford & Further Afield - 30 seconds
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A chilly winter walk from Letcombe Bassett to Wantage.
A walk following the Letcombe Brook from Letcombe Basset nature reserve to Wantage town centre.
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0:00 Letcombe nature reserve
2:10 Life on the chalk bank
6:39 Life in a chalk stream
9:47 Almost fall in to brook
9:49 Brook up close
17:00 Letcombe
19:23 Letcombe Church
30:41 Fields
38:31 Letcombe Brook
40:00 Wantage
51:40 Wantage town center