St Mary’s Church, Childrey, and the Fettiplace Brasses
Childrey's Grade I church, with a rare 12th-century lead font and one of the finest groups of medieval brasses in the Vale,…
Historic places
Stories from Wantage, Grove and the villages, from the wantage.com archive.
Segsbury Camp (Letcombe Castle)
A large Iron Age hillfort on the downs above Letcombe Regis, used on and off between the 6th and 2nd centuries BC.
The Lord Wantage Monument, Ridgeway
A tall marble memorial cross on the Ridgeway above Lockinge, put up by Lady Wantage in memory of her husband, Lord Wantage…
Scutchamer Knob (Cuckhamsley Hill)
A great prehistoric mound on the Ridgeway above East Hendred, named after Cwichelm, where the shire met and a Danish army halted…
Ardington House
A symmetrical Baroque brick house of 1719–21 built for Edward Clarke, with a celebrated staircase; home of the Baring family since 1939.
Wayland’s Smithy
A Neolithic chambered long barrow beside the Ridgeway, built in two phases around 3600–3400 BC and named after the smith of Saxon…
The Blowing Stone, Kingston Lisle
A perforated sarsen at the foot of Blowingstone Hill that booms when blown, linked in legend with King Alfred; first recorded in…
St Mary’s Convent, Wantage (Community of St Mary the Virgin)
Home since the 1850s of the Community of St Mary the Virgin, one of the first Anglican sisterhoods, with buildings by Street,…
Betjeman Millennium Park, Wantage
A two-acre park beside the Letcombe Brook, opened in 2002, with a poetry trail carved with John Betjeman's words below his former…
RAF Grove (Grove Airfield)
Second World War airfield north-west of Wantage, used by the RAF and then the US Ninth Air Force as a depot and…