Little Baldon is a
hamlet in the
Marsh Baldon civil parish, about southeast of
Oxford in
Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the north west of South East England. It is a mainly rural county, with its largest settlement being the city of Oxford. The county is a centre of research and development, primarily ...
, 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
The Handley Page HP.67 Hastings is a retired British troop-carrier and freight transport aircraft designed and manufactured by aviation company Handley Page for the Royal Air Force (RAF). Upon its introduction to service during September 1948, ...
crashed in 1965, killing all 41 people aboard. This was the third worst air crash in the United Kingdom up to that time.
A memorial plaque in the parish church of St Lawrence at
Toot Baldon
Toot Baldon is a village and civil parish about southeast of Oxford in Oxfordshire. Since 2012 it has been part of the Baldons joint parish council area, sharing a parish council with the adjacent civil parish of Marsh Baldon. The 2011 Census ...
commemorates the disaster.
See also
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Baldon Row
Baldon Row is a hamlet in Toot Baldon civil parish, about southeast of Oxford in Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the north west of South East England. It is a mainly rural county, with its largest s ...
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List of places in Oxfordshire
This is a list of settlements in both the non-metropolitan shire and ceremonial county of Oxfordshire, England.
Places marked ''ยน'' were in the administrative county of Berkshire before the boundary changes of 1974. They are within the h ...
References
{{South Oxfordshire
Hamlets in Oxfordshire
South Oxfordshire District