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Wantage works well as a base: 10 minutes from East Hanney, 35km from Avebury Stone Circle.
Wantage is in England, United Kingdom, with about 13,000 people. You drive on the left here. The nearest town is East Hanney, about 6 km away.
Wantage () is a historic market town and civil parish at the foot of the Berkshire Downs in the Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England. Historically in Berkshire, it has been administered as part of Oxfordshire since 1974. The town is on Letcombe Brook, 8 miles (13 km) south-west of Abingdon, 14 miles (23 km)Read more
north-west of Newbury, and 15 miles (24 km) south-west of Oxford.
It was the birthplace of King Alfred the Great in 849.
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Within an hour or so of Wantage: Christ Church Oxford (Great Hall inspiration and staircase) (21 km), Bodleian Library Divinity School (Hogwarts infirmary) (22 km), New College Cloister, Oxford (Moody's ferret scene) (22 km), Burford (28 km).
The nearest famous roads are Rhinefield Ornamental Drive, A466 Wye Valley (Chepstow to Monmouth) and Goodwood Festival of Speed.
Wantage is in England, United Kingdom, about 6 km from East Hanney.
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film location
The college's hall inspired the Hogwarts Great Hall set, and its 16th-century fan-vaulted Bodley staircase appears as the entry where McGonagall greets first-years.
21 km · about 25 min drive
film location
Oxford's 15th-century Divinity School was the Hogwarts hospital wing, and Duke Humfrey's Library above it the Hogwarts library.
22 km · about 25 min drive
film location
The cloister and its ancient holm oak are where Mad-Eye Moody transfigures Draco Malfoy into a ferret in Goblet of Fire.
22 km · about 25 min drive
landmark
A Cotswold wool town whose broad high street drops steeply to a medieval bridge over the Windrush.
28 km · about 35 min drive
film location
The Jacobethan country house in Hampshire that is Downton Abbey itself; the estate opens to visitors for parts of the year.
29 km · about 35 min drive
landmark
Charming Cotswolds village famously described by William Morris as the most beautiful village in England, home to the iconic Arlington Row.
34 km · about 40 min drive
landmark
A terrace of 17th-century weavers' cottages beside the Coln in Bibury, once a wool store and among the most photographed buildings in England.
34 km · about 40 min drive
ancient ruins
Largest prehistoric stone circle in the world, enclosing an entire village and considered by many to be more atmospheric than Stonehenge.
35 km · about 40 min drive
5 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 100km.
April to October
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