Didcot
Didcot | ||
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Town | ||
Shire county | ||
Region | ||
Country | England | |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom | |
Post town | Didcot | |
Postcode district | OX11 | |
Dialling code | 01235 | |
Police | Thames Valley | |
Fire | Oxfordshire | |
Ambulance | South Central | |
UK Parliament | ||
Website | Didcot Town Council | |
Didcot (
History
Ancient and Medieval eras
The area around present-day Didcot has been inhabited for at least 9,000 years. A large archaeological dig between 2010 and 2013 produced finds from the
The
Didcot was then a rural Berkshire village, and it remained so for centuries, only occasionally appearing in records. If Didcot existed at the time of the Domesday Book in 1086, it will have been much smaller than several surrounding villages, including Harwell and Long Wittenham, that modern Didcot now dwarfs. The nearest settlement recorded in the Domesday Book was Wibalditone, with 21 inhabitants and a church, whose name possibly survives in Willington's Farm on the edge of Didcot's present-day Ladygrove Estate.[10] The oldest parts of the Church of England parish church of All Saints go back to the 12th century. They include the walls of the nave and east wall of the chancel, which were built about 1160.[11] The church is a Grade II* listed building.[12]
Early modern era and the coming of the railways
Parts of the original village survive in the Lydalls Road area around
Great Western Railway
The
Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway
Didcot's junction of the routes to
Remains of the DN&S railway survive in the eastern part of town. This line, designed to provide a direct link to the south coast from the Midlands and the North avoiding the indirect and congested route via
In the Second World War there was so much military traffic to the port of Southampton that the line was upgraded. The northern section between Didcot and Newbury was made double track. It was closed for 5 months in 1942–43 for this to be done. Several of the bridges in the area of Didcot and the Hagbournes were also strengthened and rebuilt. Although passenger trains between Didcot and Newbury were withdrawn in 1962, the line continued to be used by freight trains for a further four years, and there was regular oil traffic to the north from the refinery at Fawley near Southampton. But in 1966 this traffic was also withdrawn, and then the line was dismantled. The last passenger train was a re-routed Pines Express in May 1964, diverted due to a derailment at Reading West. A section of the abandoned embankment towards Upton, now designated as a Sustrans route, has views across the town and countryside.[17]
21st century
As at 2011, Didcot had a population of more than 26,000, and by 2021, the population had grown to more than 31,000.
Didcot has been designated as one of the three major growth areas in Oxfordshire; the Ladygrove development, to the north and east of the railway line on the former marshland, is set to double the number of homes in the town since construction began in the late 1980s. Originally, the Ladygrove development was planned to be complete by 2001, but the plans for the final section to the east of Abingdon Road were only announced in 2006. Before the Ladygrove development was completed, a prolonged and contentious planning enquiry decided that a 3,300-home development would be built to the west of the town, partly overlapping the boundary with the Vale of White Horse.[22] This is now known as Great Western Park.
In 2008 a new £8 million arts and entertainment centre, Cornerstone, was opened in the Orchard Centre. It has exhibition and studio spaces, a café and a 236-seat auditorium. Designed by Ellis William Architects, the centre is clad with silvered aluminium panels and has a window wall, used to connect the building with passing shoppers.[23] The United Kingdom government named Didcot a garden town in 2015, the first existing town to gain this status, providing funding to support sustainable and environmentally friendly town development over the coming 15 years.[24] In 2017, researchers named Didcot as the most "normal" town in England.[25]
Railways
Didcot Railway Centre
Formed by the Great Western Society in 1967 to house its collection of
Didcot Parkway station
The station was originally called Didcot but then renamed Didcot Parkway in 1985 by British Rail; the site of the old GWR provender stores, which had been demolished in 1976 (the provender pond was kept to maintain the water table) was made into a large car park to attract passengers from the surrounding area. An improvement programme for the forecourt of the station began in September 2012. This was viewed as being the first phase of better connecting the station to Didcot town centre.[28]
Economy
Power stations
In October 2010, Didcot Sewage Works became the first in the UK to produce
Motor Racing
Didcot has a strong connection with Motorsports and most notably the
In the late 1960s and 1970s, Rich's Sidings in Didcot was home to Maxperenco, a racing car manufacturer run by Andrew Duncan who produced both Single-Seater Formula cars and GT Sports cars.[40]
During the 1980s and 1990s the Southmead Industrial Estate in Didcot was also home to Nissan Motorsports' Europe headquarters where they raced Nissan Primera touring cars in the British Touring Car Championship.[41]
More recently, Didcot is home to the headquarters of GT Racing Team RJN Motorsports
Agriculture
Didcot is surrounded by farmland which has historically grown traditional
Printing
From 2007 until 2017, the
Military
The British Army's Vauxhall Barracks is on the edge of town. The regimental headquarters of 11 Explosive Ordnance Disposal and Search Regiment RLC is based in the town.[50]
Governance
There are three tiers of local government covering Didcot, at parish (town), district and county level: Didcot Town Council,
The town council comprises 21 councillors representing the six wards in the town:
- All Saints – 5 members
- Ladygrove – 7 members
- Milbrook – 1 member
- Northbourne – 4 members
- Orchard – 1 member
- Park – 3 members
Didcot is also the largest town in the parliamentary constituency of
Administrative history
Didcot was an
Health
The district in England with the highest healthy life expectancy, according to an Office for National Statistics (ONS) study, is the 1990s-built Ladygrove Estate in Didcot.[54] While the average UK healthy lifespan was thought to be 68.8 for women and 67 for men in 2001, people in Ladygrove district of Didcot could expect 86 healthy years. It is believed Ladygrove may have benefited from the local recreation grounds and sports centre.[54][55]
Education
Didcot is served by seven primary schools: All Saints' C of E, Aureus, Ladygrove Park, Manor, Northbourne C of E, Stephen Freeman and Willowcroft. Along with these seven schools based in Didcot, a further six local village schools form the Didcot Primary Partnership: Blewbury Endowed C of E, Cholsey, Hagbourne, Harwell Community, Long Wittenham C of E and South Moreton County.[56] Didcot Primary Academy, opened in 2016 in the Great Western Park area,[57] falls under Harwell Parish.
Two of Didcot's state secondary schools; St Birinus School and Didcot Girls' School are single-sex schools that join at sixth form to host Didcot Sixth Form. There are two other secondary schools in Didcot which have opened alongside the construction of the Great Western Park estate; UTC Oxfordshire (ages 14–19), in 2015,[58] and Aureus School (ages 11–16), in 2017.[59]
Arts and culture
Arts centre
Cornerstone, a 278-seater multi-purpose arts centre, was opened on 29 August 2008.[60][61]
Choir
Didcot Choral Society, founded in 1958, performs three concerts a year in various venues around the town as well as an annual tour (Paris in 2008, Belgium in 2009).[62]
Symphony orchestra
Didcot Concert Orchestra, founded in 2017, performs concerts every February, May and October at Cornerstone arts centre in Didcot.[63][64]
Film and TV
In November 2018, Rebellion Developments began setting up a new studio on the edge of Didcot, valued at $100 million, using the existing former Daily Mail printing works on Milton Road. The studio is planned to be used for film and TV series based on 2000 AD comic series characters, including Judge Dredd: Mega City One.[65]
Local media
Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC South and ITV Meridian. Television signals are received from the Oxford TV transmitter. [66]
Didcot’s local radio stations are BBC Radio Oxford on 95.2 FM, Heart South on 102.6 FM and Jack FM on 106.4 FM.
Local newspapers are the Didcot Herald [67]and Oxfordshire Guardian.
Sport and leisure
Leisure centres
Didcot has three main leisure centres:
- Didcot Leisure Centre[68]
- Didcot Wave Leisure Centre (pool)[69]
- Willowbrook Leisure Centre[70]
Parks, gardens and open spaces
Didcot Town Council maintains the following:[71]
- Edmonds Park
- Loyd Recreation Park
- Smallbone Recreation Park
- Garden of Remembrance
- Marsh Recreation Ground
- Great Western Drive Park
- Ladygrove Park and Lakes
- Ladygrove woods
- Ladygrove Skate Park
- Mendip Heights Play Area
- The Diamond Jubilee Garden
- Broadway Gardens
- Stubbings Land
- Millennium woodat the Hagbourne Triangle
- Cemetery, Kynaston Road
Didcot also has a nature reserve, Mowbray Fields, where wildlife including
Sport clubs
Cricket
Didcot Cricket Club's current home ground is at Boundary Park in Great Western Park.[73]
Cycling
Didcot Phoenix cycle club[74] was founded in 1973 and is represented by over 70 members who participate in a range of cycling activities including touring, time trials, road racing, Audax, cyclocross and off-road events.
The OVO Energy Women's Tour, a road cycling event, passed through Didcot on 12 June 2019.[75] The race was halted for around 30 minutes on the Broadway because of a crash that caused the withdrawal of race leader Marianne Vos.[76]
Karate
The Didcot Karate School teaches traditional
Korfball
Didcot Dragons
Football
Didcot Town Football Club's home ground is the Loop Meadow Stadium on the Ladygrove Estate, having moved from their previous pitch off Station Road in 1999 to make way for the new Orchard Centre development. Founded in 1907, the club currently play in the 8th tier of the English Football League system.
Most notable achievements include winning the FA Vase in 2005 and reaching The FA Cup 1st Round in 2015.
Running
Didcot has its own chapter of the Hash House Harriers.[80] The club started in 1986 (the first run was on 8 April of that year).
Didcot Runners is an AAA affiliated running club founded in 2003 that meets every Tuesday & Thursday for group runs and fitness sessions. Its members participate in running races across the country.[81]
Table tennis
The Didcot & District
Notable people
- Didcot was the birthplace of William Bradbery, the first person to cultivate watercress commercially in the early 19th century.[83]
- Didcot is the birthplace of former Reading and Oxford United manager Maurice Evans and one of Reading's most-capped football players Jerry Williams.[84]
- Didcot-born rower Ken Lester competed in the 1960 Summer Olympics at the age of 13 in the coxed pairs (as the cox), he remains Britain's youngest ever male Olympian.[85][86]
- Figurative artist Rodney Gladwell was born in the town in 1928.[87]
- Air Commodore Russell La Forte was born in Didcot in 1960 and was commander of British armed forces in the South Atlantic Islands between 2013 and 2015. He was a member of the Didcot Air Training Corps (Air Cadets) as a child.[88][89]
- Ed Vaizey has been Lord Vaizey of Didcot since entering the House of Lords in September 2020. From 2005 to 2019, Ed Vaizey was MP for Wantage (which includes Didcot in the constituency).[93]
In popular culture
Didcot's synonymous connection with railways was noted in
In March 2018, anonymous artist Athirty4 added a series of fictional fantasy names to a number of road signs in Didcot.[97] The names included: Narnia, Neverland, Emerald City, Middle Earth, and Gotham City. Oxfordshire County Council thought the signs were an act of vandalism; however, members of the general public felt that the signs brought a lot of positive attention to the town.[98]
Nearby places
Main nearby towns and city
- Abingdon is 8 miles (13 km) north of Didcot by road via the A34.
- Oxford is 14 miles (23 km) north of Didcot by road via the A34, or approximately 18 minutes by train.
- Wallingford is 6 miles (10 km) east of Didcot by road via the A4130.
- Reading is 19 miles (31 km) south-east of Didcot by road via the A417 and A329, or approximately 12 minutes by train.
- Wantage is 9 miles (15 km) west of Didcot by road via the A417.
- Swindon is 37 miles (60 km) west of Didcot by road via the A34 and M4, or approximately 15 minutes by train.
Source[99]
Villages and hamlets within approximately 5 miles of Didcot
- Appleford
- Aston Tirrold
- Aston Upthorpe
- Berinsfield
- Blewbury
- Brightwell-cum-Sotwell
- Chilton
- Clifton Hampden
- Coscote
- Culham
- Dorchester
- Drayton
- East Hagbourne
- Fulscot
- Harwell
- Long Wittenham
- Little Wittenham
- Milton
- Milton Hill
- North Moreton
- Rowstock
- South Moreton
- Steventon
- Sutton Courtenay
- Upton
- West Hagbourne
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