Wantage, birthplace to King Alfred the " cakeburner" Great.
A nice place to spend some time on a grotty wet summer's day when you'd rather not get soaked and blasted on the Ridgeway.
It has a splendid little "Downland and Vale" Museum. There I got
educated about Lord and Lady Wantage and what good Victorian eggs
they were. Maybe not as Great as, well......Alfred.......though.
It also has a splendid second-hand book shop where I bought lots of books
to educate myself about other subjects that fascinate...."as you do".
And on the literary theme......the area was also home to John Betjamin (Uffington, Wantage) Pam Ayres (Standford in the Vale), and the author of "Tom Brown's School Days" Thomas Hughes (also Uffington).
On my drive homewards I stopped by to have another look at the White Horse, from afar.
(Oh and by the way, speaking of things equestrine Lester Piggot....he was from Wantage!)
( random information gathered courtesy of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wantage !!!)
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