A report on Berkshire, Vale of White Horse, Faringdon and Wantage

Windsor Castle, viewed from the Long Walk

Virginia Water Lake on the southern edge of Windsor Great Park

Former head office of Wantage Urban District Council in Portway

A panoramic view into the Vale; the White Horse is on the right and Dragon Hill centre right

Numerous borings in a Cretaceous cobble from Faringdon. These are examples of fossil bioerosion.

Stagecoach Gold bus in Wantage Market Place on former route X30 (now S9)

Vale scene, with White Horse Hill on the horizon

The former head office of the Wantage Tramway Company in Mill Street

Slough Trading Estate plays a major part in making Slough an important business centre in South East England

The Uffington White Horse, as seen from an altitude of about 600 m (2000 ft), from the cockpit of a glider

Front of King Alfred's Academy Centre Site

The Old Town Hall, Wantage, completed in 1878

The Select Car Leasing Stadium in Reading

Statue of Alfred the Great, by Prince Victor of Hohenlohe-Langenburg

Faringdon is a historic market town in the Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England, 18 mi south-west of Oxford, 10 mi north-west of Wantage and 12 mi east-north-east of Swindon.

- Faringdon

It was historically a north-west projection of Berkshire.

- Vale of White Horse

Although within the boundaries of the historic county of Berkshire, it has been administered as part of the Vale of White Horse district of Oxfordshire since 1974.

- Wantage

Faringdon was Berkshire's westernmost town until the 1974 boundary changes transferred its administration to Oxfordshire.

- Faringdon

The historic county, therefore, includes territory that is now administered by the Vale of White Horse and parts of South Oxfordshire in Oxfordshire, but excludes Caversham, Slough and five less populous settlements in the east of the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead.

- Berkshire

The towns of Abingdon, Didcot, Faringdon, Wallingford and Wantage were transferred to Oxfordshire, the six places joining came from Buckinghamshire.

- Berkshire

The towns (and predecessor urban districts) are, in size order, Abingdon, Faringdon and Wantage.

- Vale of White Horse

The nearby towns of Didcot, Faringdon and Wallingford are also part of the Wantage constituency.

- Wantage

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Brasenose Lane in Oxford city centre, a street onto which three colleges back.

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Landlocked county in the far west of the government statistical region of South East England.

The University of Oxford's Chemistry Research Laboratory.

The Abbey, Sutton Courtenay, a ‘textbook’ example of the English medieval manor house.

The ceremonial county borders Warwickshire to the north-west, Northamptonshire to the north-east, Buckinghamshire to the east, Berkshire to the south, Wiltshire to the south-west and Gloucestershire to the west.

As well as the city of Oxford, other centres of population are Banbury, Bicester, Kidlington and Chipping Norton to the north of Oxford; Carterton and Witney to the west; Thame and Chinnor to the east; and Abingdon-on-Thames, Wantage, Didcot, Wallingford and Henley-on-Thames to the south.

All its zones south of the Thames: the Vale of White Horse and parts of South Oxfordshire were within the historic county of Berkshire, including the highest point, the 261 m White Horse Hill.

The Vale of White Horse district and parts of the South Oxfordshire administrative district south of the River Thames were historically part of Berkshire, but in 1974 Abingdon, Didcot, Faringdon, Wallingford and Wantage were added to the administrative county of Oxfordshire under the Local Government Act 1972.