Wantage

Wantage is a small town in , 16 miles southwest of . It's on the edge of the Berkshire Downs and nowadays administered as part of the Vale of White Horse district.
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  • 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, Wantage.

Museum
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The is a local history museum in the market town of Wantage, , England. The Trust was formed in 1972.

Church
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The Church of St Peter and St Paul is a parish church in Wantage, . The church is a grade-I listed building.

Church
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Grove and East Challow.

Village
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is a village and civil parish in , England. The village is on Letcombe Brook, about 1+1⁄2 miles north of Wantage and 14 miles south-west of .

Village
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is a village and civil parish about 1 mile west of Wantage in the , England. Historically it was part of the ecclesiastical parish of , but since 1852 East and have formed their own single ecclesiastical parish.

Village
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is a village and civil parish in the . It was part of until the 1974 boundary changes transferred the Vale of White Horse to .

Wantage

Latitude
51.5886° or 51° 35′ 19″ north
Longitude
-1.4265° or 1° 25′ 36″ west
Population
13,100
Elevation
312 feet (95 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB WGE
Open location code
9C3WHHQF+C9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 15705287
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2634801
Wiki­data ID
Q953957
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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: “旺蒂奇”
  • 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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