Place:Wantage, Berkshire, England

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NameWantage
Alt namesWanetinzsource: Domesday Book (1985) p 37
TypeTown
Coordinates51.6°N 1.417°W
Located inBerkshire, England     ( - 1974)
Also located inOxfordshire, England     (1974 - )
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Wantage is a market town and civil parish in the Vale of the White Horse, Oxfordshire, England. The town is on Letcombe Brook, about south-west of Abingdon and a similar distance west of Didcot.

Wantage was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire. It is notable as the birthplace of King Alfred the Great in 849.

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