The Ardington Millennium Stones (the Millennium Sundial)
Two giant sundials in the woods at Ardington, made for the millennium by the sundial maker David Harber: a noon mark and…
Historic places
Stories from Wantage, Grove and the villages, from the wantage.com archive.
Mills and watercress on the Letcombe Brook
For 900 years the chalk-fed Letcombe Brook turned corn mills from Letcombe Bassett to Wantage, and its clear water grew watercress for…
Harwell: from Atomic Energy Research Establishment to Harwell Campus
The wartime airfield on the downs that became Britain's atomic research centre in 1946 and is now a science campus of more…
Uffington Museum (formerly Tom Brown’s School Museum)
The village school founded in 1617 by Thomas Saunders, a museum since 1984, with displays on the White Horse, Thomas Hughes and…
Lockinge House (demolished 1947)
The mansion at the heart of the Lockinge Estate, home of Lord and Lady Wantage and their art collection, pulled down in…
Milton Manor House
A 17th-century brick house in Milton, enlarged in the 1770s with a Gothick library and a Catholic chapel, owned by only two…
Priory Cottages and the Causeway, Steventon
Medieval priory buildings on Steventon's Causeway, now National Trust, beside the raised paved path that has run through the village since the…
Kingston Lisle House and Park
A private country house of 1677, remodelled in the 18th and 19th centuries, in a park first enclosed by Alice de Lisle…
Ashdown House and Alfred’s Castle
A tall chalk hunting lodge built by the Earl of Craven in the 1660s, and the small Iron Age hillfort beside it,…
Cherbury Camp, Charney Bassett
A large Iron Age fort on low, once marshy ground north of Charney Bassett, excavated in 1939 and now a scheduled monument.