Little Baldon | |
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Brick Barn at Little Baldon Farm | |
Little Baldon Location within Oxfordshire | |
OS grid reference | SP5600 |
Civil parish | |
District | |
Shire county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Oxford |
Postcode district | OX44 |
Dialling code | 01865 |
Police | Thames Valley |
Fire | Oxfordshire |
Ambulance | South Central |
UK Parliament | |
Website | Baldons Parish Council |
Little Baldon is a hamlet in the Marsh Baldon 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
- ↑ Aviation Safety Network
- ↑ "41 Killed On Parachute Training Flight". The Times. No. 56367. London. 7 July 1965. col C, p. 10.
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