Ardington, Berkshire

Description
Ardington, a parish in Berkshire, on an affluent of the Thames, near the Wilts and Berks Canal, 2 miles E of Wantage, and 3 1/2 SE of Wantage Road station on the G.W.R. It has a post and telegraph office under Wantage. Area of the parish, 2693 acres; population of the civil parish, 496 ; of the ecclesiastical, 432. Ardington House was the residence of Clarke the antiquary, and the seat of Robert Vernon, who collected here the Vernon Gallery of pictures, which he made over to the nation by deed of gift in 1847. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net yearly value, £209. Patron, Christ's Church, Oxford. The church is a structure of stone in the Early English style. It was restored and enlarged at the cost of Lord Wantage in 1887.