The Blue Boar (2) - sign, 4 Newbury Street, Wantage, Oxon
Introduction
The photograph on this page of The Blue Boar (2) - sign, 4 Newbury Street, Wantage, Oxon by P L Chadwick as part of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over 14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
The Blue Boar (2) - sign, 4 Newbury Street, Wantage, Oxon
Image: © P L Chadwick Taken: 23 Jul 2012
Like many public houses in Wantage, this was acquired by the brewers Greene King of Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, when they bought the long established Morlands Brewery of Abingdon in 1999 and quickly closed it down. The king on the sign may be King Alfred the Great, the 9th century monarch of Wessex, who was born in Wantage in 849 AD. Originally there would undoubtedly have been a sign depicting a boar, which would have been an animal immediately recognised by people who were not literate. Image
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image Location
Latitude
51.58801
Longitude
-1.426055