West Hendred

West Hendred is a downland village and civil parish about three miles east of Wantage that has no real centre

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West Challow

West Challow is a small downland village and civil parish three miles west of Wantage, in the Vale of the White Horse.

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Welford and Wickham

Welford is a village and parish in south-west Berkshire, in the valley of the river Lambourn, six miles north-west of Newbury on the road to Lambourn.  The parish stretches more than five miles from north to south, bounded at its southern tip by the London to Penzance railway line. Bisected by the rivers Lambourn and Kennet, and the Kennet and Avon Canal, the parish is also crossed by the M4, the A4 and the B4000 (the Roman road known as Ermin Street). The parish consists of six separate settlements: Welford (the largest, and which has the church), Wickham (separated from Welford village by the M4, and which has a chapel, the school, the village hall and one of the pubs), Easton, Weston, Hoe Benham and Halfway. From the late 1890s the village was served by the Lambourn Valley Railway. Welford had its own station until 1960, when the line closed to passengers and regular freight, although a spur to RAF Welford continued to…

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Wasing

Wasing is a small village and civil parish in West Berkshire, dominated by the 4,000-acre Wasing estate which spills over adjoining parishes

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Wantage

Wantage is a market town and civil parish in the Vale of the White Horse, as well as being a former Berkshire hundred.

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Upton

Upton is a small village on the Streatley to Wantage road, formerly a chapelry of Blewbury, and was in Berkshire until 1974

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Uffington

Uffington, named for Uffa/Offa, king of Mercia and Wessex is large village and civil parish in the Vale of the White Horse

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