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Wantage (/ˈwɒntɪdʒ/) is a historic market town and civil parish in the Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England. Although within the boundaries of the historic county of Berkshire, it has been administered as part of Oxfordshire since 1974. The town is on Letcombe Brook, 8 miles (13 km) south-west of Abingdon, 24 miles (39 km) north-west of Reading, 15 miles (24 km) south-west of Oxford and 14 miles (23 km) north-west of Newbury.
Wantage was a small Roman settlement[citation needed] but the origin of the toponym is somewhat uncertain. It is generally thought to be from an Old English phrase meaning "decreasing river".[citation needed] King Alfred the Great was born at the royal palace there in the 9th century,[2] in what was originally known as Wanating.[3] Wantage appears in the Domesday Book of 1086. Its value was £61 and it was in the king's ownership until Richard I passed it to the Earl of Albemarle in 1190. Weekly trading rights were first granted to the town by Henry III in 1246.
Manoirs Domesday
Name Households Littleworth 62 Stanford [-in-the-Vale] 51 Buckland 38 Hinton [Waldrist] 32 Longworth 30 Pusey 21 Shellingford 21 Charney [Bassett] 20 Hatford 17 Barcote 15 Duxford 7 Newton 6
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