Wantage Town Hall
Wantage market place
Alfred the Great
end of a super moon eclipse
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Fox and Hounds gone Tesco
Milton Park
Broadways pub
The Wheatsheaf at Didcot
Hart in the evening sun
Harwell houses
small turret room
timber-framed brick building
Bear Hotel at Wantage
Arkell's Bear sign
corner of Market place
1884 building
The Bell Inn
faded Mill Street sign
top of Mill Street
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
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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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