| Little Baldon | |
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Little Baldon
Little Baldon shown within Oxfordshire |
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| OS grid reference | SP5600 |
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| Parish | Toot Baldon |
| District | South Oxfordshire |
| Shire county | Oxfordshire |
| Region | South East |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Oxford |
| Postcode district | OX44 |
| Dialling code | 01865 |
| Police | Thames Valley |
| Fire | Oxfordshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
| UK Parliament | Henley |
| List of places: UK • England • Oxfordshire | |
Little Baldon is a hamlet in Toot Baldon civil parish, about 5 miles (8.0 km) southeast of Oxford in Oxfordshire, lying south of Marsh Baldon and west of Chiselhampton.
It was the crash site of the 1965 Little Baldon Hastings accident when a Royal Air Force transport aircraft crashed into a field just after take off from RAF Abingdon with the loss of 41 onboard[1] — 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.
Little Baldon lies in close proximity to other "Baldon" villages included in an old rhyme:
Marsh Baldon, Toot Baldon, Baldon on the Green,
Little Baldon, Big Baldon, Baldon-in-between