Little_Baldon

Little Baldon

Little Baldon

Human settlement in England

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.

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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.

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References

  1. [1]
    Aviation Safety Network
  2. [2]
    "41 Killed On Parachute Training Flight". The Times. No. 56367. London. 7 July 1965. col C, p. 10.
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