Hello and welcome to the Wantage Fire Station website. Wantage, birthplace of King Alfred the Great, is a small Market Town in the County of Oxfordshire, situated close to the ancient Ridgeway footpath and the famous chalk White Horse. With a crew of fourteen, our Fire Engine responds to an average of 260 calls per year ranging from rural emergencies to the typical house fire. Wantage Fire Station is ‘Retained’ which means that all the crew have other jobs and respond to a pager when activated.

In 1704, Wantage acquired its first Fire Fighting appliance and we are therefore celebrating over 300 years of service.

 We hope that you will find our website both interesting and useful with its historical and hopefully, informative content, so i may be useful to book mark this site and come back and watch it grow.

Already we have hundreds of photos in the gallery and and a great news archive section which shows over 50 years of history, worth a look!

Also take a look at the news section, with live international, and national news as well as the Wantage fire Station news. 

NEW- we are proud to say our brand new xmas gift shop is now open, for a full range of fire related toys, gifts, books and much much more at really great prices.

enter our new shop now!

new!! online auction Grand Prix Tickets click here

This site is not in anyway endorsed by Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service, the views and comments are that of the author and copyright  remains with Wantage fire station and Tony Whiting