Wantage

Wantage, a market-town of Berkshire, in the Vale of the White Horse, 26 miles W. of Reading. It has a good 14th-century church, a corn exchange (1865), a grammar-school (1597; rebuilt 1850), an Anglican home for penitents, and a marble statue (1877, by Count Gleichen) of King Alfred, who was born here. Bishop Butler was also a native. Wantage manufactures agricultural implements. Pop. (1851) 3056; (1891) 3669.