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…
Historic places
Stories from Wantage, Grove and the villages, from the wantage.com archive.
The Uffington White Horse
Britain's oldest known chalk hill figure, cut into White Horse Hill some 3,000 years ago and scoured by local people ever since.
Uffington Castle
Iron Age hillfort on the summit of Whitehorse Hill beside the Ridgeway, the highest point in Oxfordshire, built around 700 BC.
King Alfred’s Statue, Wantage Market Place
Marble statue of King Alfred unveiled in Wantage Market Place in 1877, a gift from Robert Loyd-Lindsay, later Lord Wantage.
Parish Church of SS Peter and Paul, Wantage
Wantage's Grade I parish church: a 13th-century cruciform church with medieval brasses, the Fitzwaryn tomb and a Victorian restoration by Street.
Vale and Downland Museum, Wantage
Wantage's local museum, in a 17th-century house on Church Street with a barn brought from East Hendred; free galleries on the Vale's…
Wantage Market Place and the Bear Hotel
The medieval market square at the centre of Wantage, with the 17th-century Bear Hotel, the old Corn Exchange and a twice-weekly market.