Little Baldon

Little Baldon
Little Baldon
 Little Baldon shown within Oxfordshire
OS grid referenceSP5600
Civil parishToot Baldon
DistrictSouth Oxfordshire
Shire countyOxfordshire
RegionSouth East
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town Oxford
Postcode district OX44
Dialling code 01865
Police Thames Valley
Fire Oxfordshire
Ambulance South Central
EU Parliament South East England
UK ParliamentHenley
WebsiteBaldons Parish Council
List of places
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Coordinates: 51°40′41″N 1°11′05″W / 51.678065°N 1.184709°W / 51.678065; -1.184709

Little Baldon is a hamlet in the Baldons civil parish, about 5 miles (8 km) southeast of Oxford in Oxfordshire, south of Marsh Baldon and west of Chiselhampton.

Little Baldon is near the other "Baldon" villages included in an old rhyme:

Marsh Baldon, Toot Baldon, Baldon on the Green,
 Little Baldon, Big Baldon, Baldon-in-between

It is where an RAF Handley Page Hastings crashed in 1965, killing all 41 people aboard.[1] This was the third worst air crash in the United Kingdom up to that time.[2] A memorial plaque in the parish church of St Lawrence at Toot Baldon commemorates the disaster.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Aviation Safety Network
  2. ↑ "41 Killed On Parachute Training Flight". The Times (56367). London. 7 July 1965. col C, p. 10.
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