Wantage Rural District

Wantage was a rural district of Berkshire, England from 1894 to 1974.

It was created in 1894 as a successor to the Wantage rural sanitary district.

It was named after Wantage, which formed a separate urban district entirely surrounded by the rural district.

Its area was split between the Vale of White Horse district in Oxfordshire, and the Newbury district of Berkshire.

The district contained the following civil parishes during its existence:[2]

A sign erected in Harwell, Oxfordshire by Wantage Rural District Council instructing no rubbish to be dumped. Possibly dating from the early 1970s