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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 onboard[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
- ^ Aviation Safety Network
- ^ "41 Killed On Parachute Training Flight". The Times. No. 56367. London. 7 July 1965. col C, p. 10. template uses deprecated parameter(s) (help)