Wantage market place
Arkell's Bear sign
Bear Hotel at Wantage
Fox and Hounds gone Tesco
Extraordinary Hare pub
Milton Park
Broadways pub
The Wheatsheaf at Didcot
Hart in the evening sun
Harwell houses
last of the cooling towers
distant Didcot
Victoria Cross Gallery
King Alfred's ales
Alfred Street
brickwork pattern
Alfred Street sign
King Alfreds Head
old shop and pub
art shop window
flags out in Wantage
old Hovis sign
Market Place shops
The Swan at Wantage
Wantage wines
Wantage spirits
sunlight on an old pub
Betjeman Lane
Betjeman Lane sign
seat in the sun
Wantage war memorial
The Priory at Wantage
Adkin Memorial Hall
priory windows
terraced brick cottages
Locks Lane sign
St Michael's Priory
Priory Road post box
Adkin Memorial Hall and church
Girl Guides hall
Priory Road street sign
Church of St Peter and St Paul
sunlight on a church tower
sunlight on a church clock
Church Street signpost
Wantage signpost
church weather vane
1894 opticians
king of the car park
The Bell at Grove
distant Didcot chimney
St James the Less
Marcham Road cottages
Ock Street fish and chips
Abingdon ghost
passing ghost
russet chimney pots
Victorian gables
brick and stone
brick and stone cottages
Ock Street cottages
The Crown at Marcham
corner of Market place
1884 building
small turret room
timber-framed brick building
Wantage Town Hall
The Bell Inn
top of Mill Street
faded Mill Street sign
Baptist church hall
Wantage Baptist Church
Mill Street shops
down Mill Street
Wantage windows
The Old Mill
Wessex Mill
Wharf pillar box
Kings Wharf
old sackhouse
West of England Sack Hiring Company
Wessex Flour Mill
up Mill Street
church clock and weather vane
Mill Street cottages
old casement window
abandoned Chinese restaurant
old chinky
Grove Street
cobbler locksmith
down Grove Street
former Wheatsheaf Inn
dead shop
Grove Street cottages
King Alfred
Wantage telephone boxes
Old Post Office Vaults
Jason's Flowers
Wantage directions
Alfred the Great
Jason's flower shop
Blue Boar at Wantage
Newbury Street shops
Blue Boar pub sign
King Alfred in the car park
Wallingford Street
Wantage Community Hospital
Charlton Court
Didcot from afar
power on the horizon
The Rose & Crown at Chilton
bussing through Harwell
Hart of Harwell
canal boats at Jericho
boats at Whitworth Place
canalside jetty
canalside houses
one two three ducks
a touch of red by the river
Thames at Gibbs Crescent
creeper in the bushes
houses in St Margaret's Road
Great Clarendon entrance to OUP
Freud with observatory
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www.britainexpress.com/counties/oxfordshire/az/wantage.htm
The history of Wantage goes back long before the Saxon period. The chalk hills of the Vale are dotted with prehistoric remains. and we know that the Romans established a settlement here and built a road linking Wantage and Oxford.
After the Norman Conquest, the manor of Oxford was held by the crown until Richard the Lionheart granted it to the Earl of Abermarle. The town grew slowly throughout the medieval period, and really owes its prosperity to the growth of the leather processing industry in the 17th century. As a result of that growth, the centre of town is full of attractive Georgian and Victorian buildings, and cobbled lanes lead off the market place to the historic church of St Peter and St Paul...
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