Ardington

Ardington
Holy Trinity parish church
Ardington Ardington shown within Oxfordshire
Population	284 (2001 census)^[1]
OS grid reference	SU4388
Parish	Ardington
District	Vale of White Horse
Shire county	Oxfordshire
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Wantage
Postcode district	OX12
Dialling code	01235
Police	Thames Valley
Fire	Oxfordshire
Ambulance	South Central
EU Parliament	South East England
UK Parliament	Wantage
Website	Ardington and Lockinge Parish Council
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Ardington is a village and civil parish about 2 miles (3 km) east of Wantage in the Vale of White Horse. Ardington was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire.

The parish includes the hamlet of Ardington Wick and stretches to the Great Western Main Line between Didcot and Swindon.

Ardington is a downland village, with its parish stretching from the loam rich north to the chalk downlands to the south. The ancient path of the Ridgeway runs through the southern part of the parish. There are several racing stables in and around the village, most of which use the Downs for gallops.

The oldest part of the Church of England parish church of Holy Trinity is the chancel arch, built about 1200.^[2] The Gothic Revival architect Joseph Clarke added the tower and spire in 1856.^[3] Somers Clarke remodelled the remainder of the church in 1887.^[4]

Ardington House^[5] was built in 1721.^[6] It is a Georgian Grade II* listed building and is open to the public in the summer months.

References

^ "Area selected: Vale of White Horse (Non-Metropolitan District)". Neighbourhood Statistics: Full Dataset View. Office for National Statistics. http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=4&containerAreaId=790499. Retrieved 30 March 2010.
^ Pevsner 1966, p. 67.
^ Pevsner 1966, p. 66.
^ Pevsner 1966, pp. 66, 67.
^ Ardington House: Oxfordshire's Baroque Masterpiece
^ Page & Ditchfield 1924, pp. 269-272.

Sources

Page, W.H.; Ditchfield, P.H., eds (1924). A History of the County of Berkshire, Volume 4. Victoria County History. pp. 269–272.
Pevsner, Nikolaus (1966). Berkshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 66–68.

External links

Media related to [//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ardington Ardington] at Wikimedia Commons

The District of the Vale of White Horse

Oxfordshire • County Council elections • District Council elections • Wantage County Constituency • Oxford West and Abingdon County Constituency

Towns	Abingdon (Caldecott) • Faringdon • Wantage (Belmont)

Large villages	Blewbury • Cumnor (Chilswell, Cumnor Hill, Dean Court, Farmoor, Swinford) • Drayton • East Challow • East Hendred • Grove • Harwell • Kennington • Kingston Bagpuize with Southmoor (Kingston Bagpuize, Southmoor) • Marcham (Cothill) • Milton • North Hinksey (Botley, Harcourt Hill) • Radley • St. Helen Without (Dry Sandford, Shippon) • Shrivenham • Stanford in the Vale (Bow) • Steventon • Sunningwell (Bayworth, Boars Hill, Foxcombe Hill) • Sutton Courtenay • Watchfield • Wootton (Boars Hill, Henwood, Lamborough Hill)

Other civil parishes (component villages and hamlets)	Appleford-on-Thames • Appleton-with-Eaton (Appleton, Eaton) • Ardington (Ardington Wick, West Ginge) • Ashbury (Idstone, Kingstone Winslow) • Baulking • Besselsleigh • Bourton • Buckland (Gainfield) • Buscot • Charney Bassett • Childrey • Chilton • Coleshill • Compton Beauchamp (Knighton) • Denchworth • East Hanney • Eaton Hastings • Fernham • Frilford • Fyfield and Tubney (Fyfield, Tubney, Netherton) • Garford • Goosey • Great Coxwell • Hatford (Little Hatford) • Hinton Waldrist (Duxford) • Kingston Lisle • Letcombe Bassett • Letcombe Regis • Little Coxwell • Littleworth • Lockinge (East Lockinge, West Lockinge) • Longcot • Longworth • Lyford • Pusey • Shellingford • South Hinksey (Hinksey Hill)• Sparsholt • Uffington • Upton • West Challow • West Hanney • West Hendred (East Ginge) • Woolstone • Wytham (Seacourt)

Former districts and boroughs	Municipal Borough of Abingdon • Abingdon Rural District • Faringdon Rural District • Wantage Urban District • Wantage Rural District

Former constituencies	Oxfordshire County Constituency • Abingdon Borough Constituency • Berkshire North or Abingdon County Constituency • Abingdon County Constituency

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