Wantage
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Wantage () is a historic market town and civil parish at the foot of the Berkshire Downs in the Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England. Historically in Berkshire, it has been administered as part of Oxfordshire since 1974. The town is on Letcombe Brook, south-west of Abingdon, north-west of Newbury, and south-west of Oxford.
Key facts
- UK place.type
- Town and civil parish
- UK place.official_name
- Wantage
- UK place.static_image_name
- Wantage Market Place.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Wantage Market Place with its statue of King Alfred the Great, born in Wantage
- UK place.label_position
- top
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SU3987
- UK place.population
- 13,106
- UK place.population_ref
- (2021 Census)
- UK place.civil_parish
- Wantage
- UK place.shire_district
- Vale of White Horse
- UK place.shire_county
- Oxfordshire
- UK place.region
- South East England
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.post_town
- Wantage
- UK place.postcode_district
- OX12
- UK place.postcode_area
- OX
- UK place.dial_code
- 01235
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Didcot and Wantage
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Vale of White Horse
- Population
- 11327
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Shares border with
- East Challow
- Official website
- www.wantage.com
- Image
- Wantage Market Place.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01235
Show 7 more facts
- Commons category
- Wantage
- twinned administrative body
- Mably
- postal code
- OX12
- OS grid reference
- SU398878
- topic's main category
- Category:Wantage
- P8168
- Berg
- P12749
- W. G. Sebald
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Encyclopedic overview
19 sectionsContents
- History
- Governance
- Administrative history
- Geography
- Transport
- Education
- Media
- Architecture
- Developments
- Sport and leisure
- Notable people
- Sport
- Town crier
- Twinning
- Nearby places
- See also
- References
- Sources
- External links
Wantage () is a historic market town and civil parish at the foot of the Berkshire Downs in the Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England. Historically in Berkshire, it has been administered as part of Oxfordshire since 1974. The town is on Letcombe Brook, south-west of Abingdon, north-west of Newbury, and south-west of Oxford.
It was the birthplace of King Alfred the Great in 849.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wantage” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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