Our Town Community
Wallingford and Didcot area
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Didcot dates back to the Iron Age. The settlement
was situated on the ridge in the town, and the
remainder of the surrounding area was marshland.
The Romans attempted to drain the marshland by
digging the ditch that runs north through what is
now known as the Ladygrove area north of the town
near Long Wittenham.
Didcot first appears in historical records in the
13th century as Dudcotte, Berkshire. The name is
believed to be derived from that of the local abbot.
Didcot was then a sleepy rural Berkshire village
with a population of 100 or so, and remained that
way for hundreds of years, only occasionally
cropping up in records. Parts of the original
village still exist in the Lydalls Road area and
part of All Saints' Church dates back to the 11th
century. It was much smaller than several
surrounding villages, which are now dwarfed by
modern Didcot.
There are a number of major scientific employers
nearby including the UKAEA at Culham (and the Joint
European Torus (JET) fusion research project),
Harwell Laboratory, the Science and Technology
Facilities Council (the research council responsible
for Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) and the Diamond
Light Source synchrotron, which is the largest
UK-funded scientific facility to be built for over
30 years. Didcot is also the base of operations for
the Baptist Union of Great Britain and BMS World
Mission.
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