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Wantage Area Walks & Cycle Routes F R A H W E H T P WANTAGE AREAR WALKS & CYCLE ROUTES I O R A Y 3 Faringdon Abingdon O RC H A Grove N Grove R N 3 D 8 D A T O T R E E S F M I L L S E A R R E I N T S S N O E T E N I E G T R IR N E T D A M Old S L W T IN W O S I E G L V A N L Tramway R R O O Y S R O R T Building G A O R D A A E D E D A338 Betjeman T Millennium T Park S TH E C D LO E IS R West Letcombe Brook T F E L Betjeman Lane L A417 A Church of R Challow N A A S C SS Peter ED S MARK ET PLAC Market ISU & Paul E I NG F O D H L R T Place W A L D C S WANTAGE E T R R E E E Area of route 4 U T R East A417 Reading H T A 4 S 1 Challow C 7 C H U Reading 1 R C D H B4507 A Vale and 19 S T O R E P R E T OS Downland T T C Y O Childrey E F H R Museum FIC A E E O LA IN I R NE R T H P I S 17 L 16 L L 18 Y O 2 D C R 15 A K S U O B R L 14 13 Eagles Close Ashbury A W R N E O E N Letcombe N 3 A B4494 AD Regis M O ST A R NNES EWS D M 12 ON RM O 9 7 50 A338 10 11 B4 D C D R O A R M O N H 4 O A Ashbury I N 5 0 7 128 N R O A D P O R T W AY B 4 H I C K L E T O I L 5 6 7 L N E Hackpen Hill Letcombe W B Bassett U R Y S T R E E T A 3 3 8 RIDGE WAY 8 W I L L O W L A N E D A O R R O N Maps produced by Oxford Cartographers, www.oxfordcartographers.com A M Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database rights 2016 Hungerford Hungerford 0 50 100 150 200m Route 4 - Victorian Wantage Part 2 The ancient market town of Wantage sits on the Letcombe Brook, at the foot of the Berkshire Downs. The town is characterised by 16th century timber framed houses refaced in the late 18th and early 19th centuries in red brick. In 1847 Wantage became an educational and spiritual centre for the Oxford Movement, and the vicar of the parish church, Rev William Butler, was responsible for several fine buildings in the town centre. This walk is in two parts, Route 3 and Route 4; together they total about four miles and form a figure of eight, with the Museum and Market Place at the centre. This route explores 19th century Wantage south of the market place. It shows how the Rev William Butler and the Oxford Movement changed the town in the Victorian period. SECOND CIRCULAR WALK At the corner of Locks Lane turn left, ‘dog about 2 miles - all on the flat. leg’ south, past Victorian terraced cottages with slate chimney pots. Leave Museum, turn left into Church Street, follow the road past the parish church and turn On your left are more recent buildings of left into Priory Road, formerly Tanner Street. the former King Alfred’s Grammar School built Roof detail This was once the western side of the ancient from 1850 onwards. The limestone portion in Wantage village green. It is dominated by 16th century timber framed tanyard buildings, faced Turn left into Portway past the oldest part in brickwork during the 18th century. On the of King Alfred’s Grammar School with its former left, buildings on the former green are mainly chapel 1908 -1922. Victorian and Edwardian. Having passed the continuous rows of brick King Alfred’s School King Alfred’s fronted cottages and houses, we reach a wall on the right, enclosing St Michael’s which was set up in 1852 as a school for training girls for domestic Gothic was designed by J. Clacy and domestic service but under the influence of the the brick buildings by Butterfield in 1872. Now Rev Butler became training premises in 1855. this is the centre site of King Alfred’s Community Terrace Newbury Street The chapel apsidal was added in 1888. The & Sports Academy. buildings were converted into housing recently. Follow Portway east past Orchard House Turn right and walk to the junction with Post 1840 to 1850, to reach Newbury Street. Office Lane; on the corner is the former post office 1876. Note the text over the door and the stamp dispenser. Follow the lane to a fork, ahead is Eagles Close Almshouses, built in 1867. There is a former water pump in the terrace gardens. St Mary’s roof St Mary’s Thomas Eagle left the land “…out of respect to the memory of his beloved and affectionate Old Newbury Street practice Old Newbury Street wife, a native of Wantage, as an asylum for decayed housekeepers”. The interesting Turn right into Newbury Street. A little ecclesiastical features reflect the church’s way along this street you come to Robert involvement with housing. Today the almshouses Stiles Almshouses, built in Stiles Court. Behind provide attractive housing for retired people in the big entrance door you can see sheep’s the town. knuckles embedded into the pathway. These almshouses still provide door St Mary’s Walk as far as Pontin’s School Chapel 1898 before returning to the crossroads. Eagles Close Almshouses Outside Stiles Turn left into Ormond Road. You can see Return to Newbury St, cross to Church St, about 100 metres ahead on the right, on the and back towards the Museum. On the left is a home for elderly folk. opposite corner of Chain Hill, an imaginative the former Church Primary School which was They are the result of a development of apartments, Alfredston designed by Woodyer and established in 1850. Inside Stiles legacy from the will of Place, the former Wantage Engineering There are some wonderful Pre-Raphaelite Robert Stiles who was born in Wantage in 1625, Works. (Alfredston was Thomas Hardy’s name paintings on the ceilings, some restored, some and made his fortune in the Netherlands. He for Wantage – Alfred’s Town – in ‘Jude the never finished The old screens separating the died in 1680. Obscure’.) classrooms are intact as are the rolls of honour. fold line non-printing First left takes you into the new St Mary’s Return to the Museum. housing development. St Gabriel’s Continue to explore the Victorian buildings: & Downland Museum Vale large houses such as St Gabriel’s, now converted to apartments, and part of the former St Mary’s School and Brooklands, the large house now St Mary’s Chapel St Mary’s used by a firm of solicitors; also terraced villas and cottages, until you reach the former Toll Follow the access road and explore behind House 1833, the white house just before the the modern blocks of buildings to find the rear Comrades’ Club. of the School Chapel and the various Victorian buildings extended by William Butterfield 1874 -75, now incorporated into the housing Produced thanks to funds provided by SEEDA and Oxfordshire County Council through development. Oxfordshire Rural Community Council Follow the pedestrian road northwards Series Editor: Jean Nunn-Price MBE around Butterfield’s extension and out through a Brooklands blue gate back into Newbury Street. Illustrations by Stuart Roper Across Newbury Street to your left is St Photographs by Dan Rolfe Retrace your steps back to the crossroads Anne’s, one of the earliest Georgian houses Text courtesy of Bill Fuller and Carol Altmann and observe Newbury Street northwards where in the town, in front of you is the Wesleyan several older buildings were encased to form St Methodist Chapel 1844. Further copies of this route and others in the Mary’s School in 1848 with extensive additions series are available from the Independent Advice 1874 - 75. Remain on the east side of Newbury Street. Centre, Market Square, Wantage.
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