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- A brick house with Gothic windows in the churchyard at Wantage
Photo: Tom Bastin, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - A drive between pollarded lime trees leading to Hendred House, East Hendred
Photo: Des Blenkinsopp, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - A gate on the tree-lined Ridgeway opening onto the downland slopes of Streatley Warren
Photo: Oscar Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - A grassy stretch of the Ridgeway near Scutchamer Knob, with wide views over the downs
Photo: Des Blenkinsopp, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - A grey parchment charter of King Æthelred for Abingdon Abbey, dated 993
Image: public domain, via Wikimedia Commons - A high-speed train passing the former Wantage Road station site on the Great Western main line
Photo: The Basingstoker, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - A high-speed train passing the site of the old Wantage Road station on the Great Western main line
Photo: The Basingstoker, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - A new tree-lined street of brick and timber-clad houses at Kingsgrove, Wantage
Photo: Oscar Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - A page of Old English handwriting from a copy of King Alfred's will
Image: public domain, via Wikimedia Commons - A still pool on the Letcombe Brook in the Letcombe Valley nature reserve, reflecting bare trees
Photo: Dudley Miles, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons - A timber-framed brick house behind a wall on a lane in Letcombe Regis
Photo: Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - Abingdon and Witney College, Wootton Road campus, Abingdon
Photo: Mat Fascione, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - Abingdon School buildings on Park Road, Abingdon
Photo: Reading Tom from Reading, UK, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - Aerial view at sunset of the ramparts of Segsbury Camp hillfort above Letcombe Regis
Photo: Matthew Prior, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons - Aerial view of Harwell Campus with the domed Diamond Light Source building at its centre
Photo: Science and Technology Facilities Council, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - Aerial view of the oval ramparts of Uffington Castle hillfort on White Horse Hill
Photo: Dave Price, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - Aerial view of White Horse Hill showing the Manger, Dragon Hill and Uffington Castle
Photo: Dave Price, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - All Saints Church, Farnborough, Berkshire
Photo: Oswald Bertram, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - All Saints Church, Farnborough, Berkshire
Photo: Oscar Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - All Saints Church, Lockinge, from the north-west
Photo: Andrew Mathewson, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - Ashdown House seen across parkland from the ramparts of Alfred's Castle
Photo: Philip Jelley, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons - Autumn trees along Dogkennel Lane, South Fawley
Photo: Yiannis Theologos Michellis, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons - Black and white close-up of a young Lester Piggott smiling
Photo: Ragge Strand / Bjørn Fjørtoft / Rolf Engesland, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons - Both sides of a silver penny of King Æthelred II, of the type struck around 991 to 997
Photo: Amy Downes, West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service (Portable Antiquities Scheme), CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - Bronze statue of John Betjeman holding his hat and gazing up at the roof of St Pancras station
Photo: Tom Page, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - Carved wooden choir stalls with cushions in the chancel of Wantage church
Photo: Bill Nicholls, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - Childrey village pond reflecting the sky, with a white timber-framed house behind
Photo: Roger Davies, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - Church of the Holy Rood, Sparsholt
Photo: AJD, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - Clear water flowing through the old cress beds at Letcombe Bassett
Photo: Des Blenkinsopp, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - Cothill House School, Cothill, near Abingdon
Photo: Vieve Forward, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - Country lane leading from East Ginge towards West Hendred
Photo: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - Cow parsley and hawthorn blossom beside a meadow in Ardington in spring
Photo: Des Blenkinsopp, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - Daffodils and trees along a path in Betjeman Millennium Park, with the church tower behind
Photo: Fly, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - Daffodils on the green at West Hanney, with a timber-framed house behind
Photo: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - East Challow Village Hall, where Wantage Art Group meets
Photo: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - Engraved portrait of Bishop Joseph Butler in a wig and clerical bands
Image: Unknown engraver, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons - Entrance to Fitzwaryn School from Denchworth Road, Wantage
Photo: Roger Templeman, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The main street through East Lockinge with brick cottages
Photo: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - Farmland view from Kingston Lisle towards the Vale
Photo: Des Blenkinsopp, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - Frances O'Connor smiling, in a film still from Three Dollars, 2004
Photo: Robert Connolly, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - Hanney War Memorial Hall, East Hanney, where East Hanney Parish Council meets
Photo: JThomas, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - Harcourt Green, the open green in Charlton, Wantage
Photo: Des Blenkinsopp, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - Holy Rood Church, Sparsholt, with its shingled spire, among trees
Photo: Motacilla, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons - Holy Trinity Church, Ardington
Photo: Andrew Mathewson, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - Holy Trinity Church, West Hendred, from the south-east
Photo: Andrew Mathewson, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - King Alfred's statue among market stalls in Wantage Market Place
Photo: Brian Harrington Spier, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - Letcombe Bassett Village Hall on Gramps Hill
Photo: Oscar Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - Letcombe FC's pitch on the Recreation Ground, Letcombe Regis
Photo: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - Line drawing of the two volumes of Domesday Book lying open
Image: William Andrews (1900), public domain, via Wikimedia Commons - Looking through the pointed arches of the central tower crossing in Wantage church
Photo: Bill Nicholls, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - Main Street, Grove, with a brick house and trees in evening light
Photo: Des Blenkinsopp, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - New brick and dark timber-clad houses along Cowslip Road, Kingsgrove
Photo: Des Blenkinsopp, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - New houses beside a curving path and green space at Wellington Gate on the old Grove airfield
Photo: Oscar Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - Oil portrait of Jonathan Swift in clerical dress by Charles Jervas
Image: Charles Jervas, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons - Old Mill Hall on School Lane, Grove, home of Grove Parish Council
Photo: Des Blenkinsopp, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - Old shops in Wantage with the parish church tower rising behind
Photo: Ballista, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons - Open grassland at Grove looking towards the Monks Farm buildings in 2010
Photo: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - Portrait photograph of Thomas Hardy with a full beard
Photo: Herbert Rose Barraud (1845-1896), public domain, via Wikimedia Commons - Portrait photograph of Thomas Hughes in later life, with white side whiskers
Photo: Unknown photographer, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons - Seventeenth-century engraved portrait of Edmund Campion with a rope about his neck
Image: Unknown engraver, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons - St Andrew's Church, Letcombe Regis
Photo: Motacilla, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons - St Augustine of Canterbury parish church, East Hendred
Photo: Stefan Czapski, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - St Birinus School on Mereland Road, Didcot
Photo: Sionk, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons - St Blaise's parish church and churchyard, Milton
Photo: Neil Theasby, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - St Helen and St Katharine School on Faringdon Road, Abingdon
Photo: David Howard, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - St James Church of England Primary School, East Hanney
Photo: Roger Templeman, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - St James Church, Denchworth, from the north-west
Photo: Motacilla, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons - St James the Great Church, West Hanney, where the Hanney bellringers ring
Photo: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - St John the Baptist Church on Main Street, Grove, where Wantage Chess Club meets
Photo: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - St John the Baptist Church, Kingston Lisle
Photo: AJD, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - St Laurence Church, West Challow
Photo: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - St Mary the Virgin Church and churchyard, Lyford
Photo: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - St Mary the Virgin Church, Fawley
Photo: Philipjelley, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons - St Mary's Catholic Church and presbytery, St Mary's Road, East Hendred
Photo: Motacilla, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons - St Mary's Church, Uffington
Photo: Gareth James, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - St Matthew's Church, Harwell
Photo: Jpbowen at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons - St Michael & All Angels Church, Letcombe Bassett
Photo: Oscar Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - St Michael's Church of England Primary School, Steventon
Photo: Roger Templeman, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - St Nicholas Church, East Challow
Photo: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - St Nicholas Church, East Challow, from the north-west
Photo: Motacilla, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons - St Peter's Church, Charney Bassett, a small stone church in its churchyard
Photo: Ballista, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons - Tall Victorian red-brick and flint buildings that were once St Mary's School, Wantage
Photo: David Kemp, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - Terracotta lettering reading 'Wantage Tramway Co Ltd 1904' on a Wantage building
Photo: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The abandoned Wilts and Berks Canal at Grove under snow, lined with trees
Photo: Dudley Miles, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons - The Bay Tree pub in Grove, seen from Denchworth Road
Photo: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The Bear Hotel and the pale stuccoed old town hall on the south side of Wantage Market Place
Photo: David Howard, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The Bell pub on Main Street, Grove
Photo: Des Blenkinsopp, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The Blowing Stone, a holed sarsen boulder, beside a fence at Kingston Lisle
Photo: Ballista, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The brick and flint former stables of Stirlings with a clock turret, Wallingford Street
Photo: Des Blenkinsopp, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The brick front of Milton Manor House with its side wings across a lawn
Photo: Des Blenkinsopp, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The brick gate piers and open gates at the main entrance to Harwell
Photo: Meltie, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The bronze plaque on the statue's plinth recording its unveiling on 14 July 1877
Photo: Philip Jelley, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The carved memorial bust of Edward Pococke in academic cap and gown
Photo: Pruneau, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons - The chalk Ridgeway track crossing open downland towards Sparsholt Down under a blue sky
Photo: JimChampion, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The flat-topped chalk knoll of Dragon Hill below White Horse Hill, with fields beyond
Photo: Andrew Gray, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The gate to Hendred Vineyard near East Hendred
Photo: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The glass-fronted Williams headquarters at Grove behind a topiary racing car
Photo: Philip Jeffrey, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The gold and garnet Anglo-Saxon disc brooch found at West Hanney, with a scale bar
Photo: Anni Byard (Portable Antiquities Scheme), CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The Gothic stone gateway to King Alfred's School, Wantage
Photo: Andrew Mathewson, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The grassy banks of Cherbury Camp hillfort with a line of trees behind
Photo: ian freeman, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The grassy mound of Scutchamer Knob under pine and beech trees
Photo: Des Blenkinsopp, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The great sarsen stones at the entrance to Wayland's Smithy long barrow, framed by beech trees
Photo: August Schwerdfeger, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The Greyhound Inn on Main Street, Letcombe Regis
Photo: Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The Griffin Memorial Hall, Sparsholt, from the south
Photo: Motacilla, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The Kings Arms pub at 39 Wallingford Street, Wantage
Photo: P L Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The Letcombe Brook flowing between trees just north of Wantage
Photo: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The Letcombe Brook winding between trees and grass at East Hanney
Photo: Des Blenkinsopp, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The long brick range of Stiles almshouses on Newbury Street, Wantage
Photo: David Kemp, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The long nave of Wantage parish church with its arcades and timber roof
Photo: Bill Nicholls, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The Lord Wantage memorial cross on the Ridgeway against a clear blue sky
Photo: Dave Price, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The Lord Wantage monument, a tall stone cross on a square base, against a blue sky
Photo: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The marble effigy of William John Butler on his tomb in Lincoln Cathedral
Photo: Julian P Guffogg, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The marble statue of King Alfred in Wantage holding a battleaxe and scroll
Photo: Philip Jelley, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The medieval FitzWarin tomb with a stone effigy in Wantage parish church
Photo: Bill Nicholls, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The narrow Letcombe Brook flowing past brick houses and a green in Wantage
Photo: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The overgrown line of the Wilts and Berks Canal with an information board at West Challow
Photo: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The pavilion on the Recreation Ground, Letcombe Regis, home of Letcombe Cricket Club
Photo: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The Vale & Downland Museum on Church Street, Wantage, where the café is
Photo: Bill Nicholls, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The restored red Wantage Tramway engine No. 5 'Shannon' in the shed at Didcot
Photo: Bradley Wurth, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The Ridgeway running through long grass on the Lockinge estate downs
Photo: Oswald Bertram, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The Ridgeway, a chalk track between green verges, climbing towards White Horse Hill
Photo: JimChampion, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The sarsen stone façade of Wayland's Smithy long barrow among beech trees
Photo: Mertbiol, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons - The Star Inn, Sparsholt
Photo: Oscar Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The steep dry valley of the Devil's Punchbowl below the Ridgeway near Letcombe Bassett
Photo: Philip Jelley, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The stone buildings of Charney Manor, with its chapel gable, beside a curving drive
Photo: Vieve Forward, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The stone lodge at the gates of Kingston Lisle Park
Photo: Oscar Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The stone parish church of SS Peter and Paul, Wantage, with its central tower, seen from the churchyard
Photo: Andrew Mathewson, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The stone schoolroom of 1617 that houses the Uffington Museum
Photo: Michael Garlick, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The Swan in Wantage Market Place; the Cob & Pen cocktail bar is upstairs
Photo: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - Ardington House, an early Georgian brick manor house in Ardington
Photo: Michael Garlick, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The tall stone cross of the Lord Wantage monument rising above a hedge by the Ridgeway
Photo: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The tall white Ashdown House with its cupola at the end of a tree-lined avenue
Photo: Brian Robert Marshall, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The thatched, white-painted Fox Inn at Denchworth
Photo: Oswald Bertram, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The timber-framed Priory Cottages behind a stone wall in Steventon
Photo: Colin Park, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The tower and nave of St Augustine's Church, East Hendred, among gravestones
Photo: Steve Bennett (stevage), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons - St Mary the Virgin Church, Childrey
Photo: Oswald Bertram, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The tree-lined raised Causeway through Steventon with cottages
Photo: Des Blenkinsopp, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The Unicorn School on Marcham Road, Abingdon
Photo: David Howard, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The white chalk lines of the Uffington White Horse on the hillside above the Vale
Photo: Andrew Gray, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The white marble statue of King Alfred on its rocky plinth in Wantage Market Place
Photo: Ballista, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons - The white tensile canopy and office buildings at the centre of Milton Park
Photo: Des Blenkinsopp, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - Timber-framed and brick buildings along the edge of Wantage Market Place
Photo: David Howard, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - View north over the Vale towards Wantage from the Iron Age hillfort of Segsbury Camp
Photo: Philip Jelley, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons - View over the rooftops of west Wantage from the church tower
Photo: Commyguy, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons - Wantage Baptist Church on Mill Street, where the Baptist Church baby and toddler group meets
Photo: David Howard, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - Wantage Health Centre on Mably Way, home of Church Street Practice
Photo: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - Wantage Library, where the Tuesday Chat group meets
Photo: Bill Nicholls, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - Wantage Market Place with King Alfred's statue, parked cars and Georgian shopfronts
Photo: Bill Boaden, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - Wantage Market Place, where the town market is held
Photo: Bill Nicholls, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - Wantage Methodist Church, home of the community drop-in café
Photo: David Hillas, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - Wantage Primary Academy, where Stagecoach Wantage holds its classes
Photo: Des Blenkinsopp, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons - Wartime aerial photograph of RAF Grove airfield with its runways, April 1943
Photo: United States Army Air Forces, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons - Wartime aerial photograph of RAF Grove and the villages around it, January 1944
Photo: United States Army Air Forces, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons - West Ginge and the surrounding farmland below the downs
Photo: IcknieldRidgeway, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons - West Hendred Village Hall on Ginge Road
Photo: Bill Nicholls, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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