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
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Coordinates: 51°40′41″N 1°11′05″W / 51.678065°N 1.184709°W

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 on board[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

See also

References

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