Wantage Union Workhouse (later the Downs Hospital)
The workhouse built in 1836 on the Hungerford road south of Wantage for 33 parishes, later the Downs Hospital. Only fragments survive.
Historic places
Stories from Wantage, Grove and the villages, from the wantage.com archive.
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.
Stirlings, Wallingford Street, Wantage
The Georgian house William Stirling built at the east end of Wallingford Street after buying the manor of Brians in 1752. It…
The Ridgeway and the Icknield Way
The ancient trackway along the crest of the downs above Wantage, now a National Trail, and the lower Icknield Way along the…
Church of the Holy Rood, Sparsholt
Sparsholt's Grade I church, with a Norman doorway, a 14th-century chancel and rare medieval oak effigies of the Achard family.
St James the Great, West Hanney, and the Hanneys
West Hanney's Norman church, with a rich 12th-century doorway and a fine run of Tudor brasses, serving the old parish of the…
The Lockinge Estate and its Model Villages
Ardington and the Lockinges, rebuilt from the 1860s by Lord and Lady Wantage as model estate villages; Lockinge House itself was demolished…
Champs Chapel (Chapel of Jesus of Bethlehem), East Hendred
A 15th-century chapel built by the Carthusian monks of Sheen, with its priest's house, now East Hendred's village museum.
Hendred House and St Amand’s Chapel, East Hendred
The medieval manor house of Arches, home of the Catholic Eyston family since the 15th century, with a chapel never used for…
Charney Manor, Charney Bassett
A 13th-century grange of Abingdon Abbey with a first-floor solar and chapel, one of Britain's oldest inhabited houses and a Quaker retreat…