Wantage
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Wantage is
the birth place of Alfred The Great. King Alfred was reportedly born in
849 and is credited with bringing together the warring Angleo Saxon tribes
and creating the English Nation. He established a legal code, improved
literacy and is the only king to be referred to as The Great.
This picture
shows the market place in Wantage where there is a statue of King Alfred.
The town
is surrounded by historical locations including the ancient Ridgeway National
Trail which is just 3.5 kilometres out of town.
There is
also Iron Age hill forts, such as Segsbury Camp and Uffington Castle,
Bronze Age burial mounds, Wayland's Smithy, one of the Britain's most
impressive prehistoric tombs and the White Horse which gives the district
its name.
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