Ardington

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title: "Ardington" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["villages-in-oxfordshire", "civil-parishes-in-oxfordshire", "vale-of-white-horse"] description: "Village in Oxfordshire, England" topic_path: "general/villages-in-oxfordshire" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardington" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Village in Oxfordshire, England ::

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Field	Value
official_name	Ardington
static_image_name	Ardington church.jpg
static_image_caption	Holy Trinity parish church
static_image_2_name	Ardington House - Early Georgian (1720), brick built manor house (geograph 4978367).jpg
static_image_2_caption	Ardington House
coordinates
os_grid_reference	SU4388
label_position	top
area_total_km2	10.89
population	288
population_ref	(Parish, 2021)
civil_parish	Ardington
shire_district	Vale of White Horse
shire_county	Oxfordshire
region	South East England
country	England
post_town	Wantage
postcode_district	OX12
postcode_area	OX
dial_code	01235
constituency_westminster	Didcot and Wantage
website	Ardington and Lockinge Parish Council
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| official_name = Ardington | static_image_name = Ardington church.jpg | static_image_caption = Holy Trinity parish church | static_image_2_name = Ardington House - Early Georgian (1720), brick built manor house (geograph 4978367).jpg | static_image_2_caption = Ardington House | coordinates = | os_grid_reference = SU4388 | label_position = top | area_total_km2 = 10.89 | population = 288 | population_ref = (Parish, 2021) | civil_parish = Ardington | shire_district = Vale of White Horse | shire_county = Oxfordshire | region = South East England | country = England | post_town = Wantage | postcode_district = OX12 | postcode_area = OX | dial_code = 01235 | constituency_westminster = Didcot and Wantage | website = Ardington and Lockinge Parish Council

Ardington is a village and civil parish about 2 mi east of Wantage in the Vale of White Horse. It was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire. Since 2000, Ardington has shared a grouped parish council with the neighbouring parish of Lockinge. In 2011 the parish had a population of 288.

Geography and economy

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, along the North Wessex Downs AONB section of the route. Racing stables are beside and around the village most of which use the Downs for gallops. Much of the land in the parishes of Ardington and Lockinge forms part of the Lockinge Estate. Local amenities in Ardington include a public house - The Boar's Head, a sports club, village store, post office and tearoom, and the Loyd-Lindsay Rooms - a set of rooms which are let out to the community and on a commercial basis for weddings, parties and conferences. Local charities can use the rooms to hold events to raise money.

Ardington Wick is a hamlet a short distance north of the village.

Notable buildings

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

Ardington House was built for Edward Clarke in 1721 and has three tall storeys and seven window bays in breadth, not being deep, almost rectangular. It has small wings without bays to each side (alternatively the entire front range can be described as projecting) topped by a classical triangular pediment framing a weathered mid-19th century coat of arms in stone (cartouche). Its windows and central door are faced in complementary coloured brickwork dressings to its general grey brick façade. It is a Georgian Grade II* listed building and is open to the public in the summer months.

Governance

There are three tiers of local government covering Ardington, at parish, district and county level: Ardington and Lockinge Parish Council, Vale of White Horse District Council, and Oxfordshire County Council. The parish council is a grouped parish council, set up in 2000 to cover the two parishes of Lockinge and Ardington. The parish council generally meets at the Loyd-Lindsay Rooms in Ardington.

Administrative history

Ardington was an ancient parish in the Wantage hundred of Berkshire. Ardington was transferred from Berkshire to Oxfordshire in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972.

References

Sources

References

1. "2021 Census Parish Profiles". Office for National Statistics.
2. [http://www.ardingtonhouse.com/ Ardington House: Oxfordshire's Baroque Masterpiece]
3. {{NHLE
4. [https://www.ardingtonhouse.com/public-opening/ Ardington House: Public Opening]
5. (2023). "Application to Vale of White Horse District Council for the designation of Ardington and Lockinge Parish Council as the Neighbourhood Area for the purposes of producing the Ardington and Lockinge Neighbourhood Plan".
6. "Ardington and Lockinge Parish Council".
7. (1979). "Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England: Volume I". Royal Historical Society.

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