Wantage
Wantage is a small town in Oxfordshire, 16 miles southwest of Oxford. It's on the edge of the Berkshire Downs and nowadays administered as part of the Vale of White Horse district.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Andrew Mathewson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Town with 13,100 residents
- Description: market town and civil parish in Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England
- Also known as: “Wantage, Berkshire”, “Wantage, Oxfordshire”, and “Wantage, Oxon”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Vale and Downland Museum and Church of St Peter and St Paul.
Vale and Downland Museum
Museum
Photo: Alec Samler, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Vale and Downland Museum is a local history museum in the market town of Wantage, Oxfordshire, England. Often described as a hidden gem the museum is housed in the 'Old Surgery', Church Street, in the centre of the town, opposite the Church of St Peter and St Paul Its galleries present the cultural heritage of the Vale of White Horse region around Wantage.
Church of St Peter and St Paul
Church
Photo: Motacilla, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Church of St Peter and St Paul is a Church of England parish church in Wantage, Oxfordshire. The church is a grade-I listed building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Grove and East Challow.
Grove
Village
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Grove is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire, England. The village is on Letcombe Brook, about 1+1⁄2 miles north of Wantage and 14 miles south-west of Oxford.
East Challow
Village
Photo: Motacilla, CC BY-SA 4.0.
East Challow is a village and civil parish about 1 mile west of Wantage in the Vale of White Horse, England. Historically it was part of the ecclesiastical parish of Letcombe Regis, but since 1852 East and West Challow have formed their own single ecclesiastical parish.
Letcombe Regis
Village
Photo: andrew auger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Letcombe Regis is a village and civil parish in the Vale of White Horse. It was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred the Vale of White Horse to Oxfordshire.
Wantage
- Categories: civil parish, market town, and locality
- Location: Vale of White Horse District, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.5878° or 51° 35′ 16″ northLongitude
-1.4249° or 1° 25′ 30″ westPopulation
13,100Elevation
312 feet (95 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB WGEOpen location code
9C3WHHQG+42OpenStreetMap ID
node 15705287OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Wantage” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “وانتج”
- Armenian: “Վանտեջ”
- Asturian: “Wantage”
- Azerbaijani: “Vantedj”
- Basque: “Wantage”
- Belarusian: “Вантэдж”
- Bengali: “ওয়ান্টেজ”
- Catalan: “Wantage”
- Cebuano: “Wantage”
- Chinese: “Wantage”
- Chinese: “万蒂奇”
- Chinese: “旺塔奇”
- Chinese: “萬蒂奇”
- Czech: “Wantage”
- Dutch: “Wantage”
- Egyptian Arabic: “وانتج”
- French: “Wantage”
- German: “Wantage”
- Gujarati: “વોન્ટેજ”
- Hebrew: “ונטג‘”
- Irish: “Wantage”
- Italian: “Wantage”
- Japanese: “ウォンテージ”
- Japanese: “ウォンティッジ”
- Japanese: “ワンテジ”
- Kannada: “ವಾಂಟೇಜ್”
- Korean: “완티지”
- Ladin: “Wantage (Berkshire)”
- Ladin: “Wantage”
- Latin: “Wantage”
- Lithuanian: “Vanteidžas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Wantage”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wantage”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wantage”
- Norwegian: “Wantage”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Waneting”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ƿaneting”
- Persian: “وانتج”
- Polish: “Wantage”
- Portuguese: “Wantage”
- Romanian: “Wantage”
- Russian: “Вантедж”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wantage”
- Slovak: “Wantage”
- Slovenian: “Wantage”
- South Azerbaijani: “وانتج”
- Spanish: “Wantage”
- Swedish: “Wantage”
- Tamil: “வான்டஜ்”
- Telugu: “వాంట్ఏజ్”
- Turkish: “Wantage”
- Urdu: “وانٹیج”
- Volapük: “Wantage”
- Welsh: “Wantage”
- “Wantage”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Wantage”. Photo: Andrew Mathewson, CC BY-SA 2.0.