Wantage (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wantage is a market town and civil parish in the Vale of White Horse, England, about 8 miles (13 km) southwest of Abingdon and a similar distance west of Didcot. Wantage was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire.Wantage is the birthplace of King Alfred the Great and King Edward the Elder.Wantage is at the foot of the Berkshire Downs escarpment in the Vale of the White Horse, amidst prime horse racing country. There are gallops at Black Bushes and nearby villages with racing stables include Letcombe Bassett, East Hendred, Lockinge and Uffington. Wantage includes the suburbs of Belmont to the west and Charlton to the east.