1884 building
The Kings Arms at Wantage
Tudor ambience destroyed
Tommy's £60,000 breakfast
The George coffee house
The Ship at Bermondsey
The Ship pub sign
Barclays Bank sign
sunlight in Church Walk
Woodstock Road blues
passing houses in the evening sun
sunlight on an Oxford gable
old tower and merchant's house
Castle Tavern gone grey
half-timbered semi
half-timbered semis
Little Wittenham thatch
Bishop's Cottage
leaning windows
former Shotover Arms at Headington
Eynsham gables
unspoiled windows
Wantage Town Hall
small turret room
Wantage market place
timber-framed brick building
Grove Street
cobbler locksmith
Adkin Memorial Hall
Girl Guides hall
Adkin Memorial Hall and church
Grove Street cottages
old shop and pub
The Swan at Wantage
bussing through Harwell
Hart in the evening sun
Tudor Cottage, Harwell
arriving in Thame
half-timbered corner shop
Stribblehills
old chimneys in Cornmarket
Lancastrian Cottage
old timbering
The Cruke
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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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