WANTAGE, (Berkshire) 7 m. from Abingdon and Farringdon, 10 m. from Newbury, 50 cm. 59 mm. from London, is a neat T. formerly a royal ville, and the birth-place of K. Alfred. A little r. runs by it, out of the Vale of White-Horse into the Ocke. It was made a manor about 150 years after the Conquest, and fell to the Bourchiers Earls of Bath, from whom it came to the Wrays, and from them, by purchase, to the D'Ouleys of Oxfordshire. Its downs, about 1 m. off, are noted for horse- races; and 'tis a fine hunting country all about it. The Mt. is on S. Fairs July 7, Oct. 6. This manor, with the entire Hs. of Wantage, and Ganfield, with the Fairs and Mts. are, with the high rents, about 800 l. a year, in possession, and 400 l. a year in reversion, after one, two, and three lives.