Didcot power stations
Didcot power station is an active natural gas power plant that supplies the National Grid. A combined coal and oil power plant, Didcot A, was the first station on the site, which opened in 1970 and was demolished between 2014 and 2020.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Dave Price, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Power station
- Description: combined coal and oil power plant and natural-gas power plant in Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Didcot Power Station”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Didcot Railway Centre and Didcot Girls’ School.
Didcot Railway Centre
Museum
Photo: William M. Connolley, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Didcot Railway Centre is a railway museum and preservation engineering site in Didcot, Oxfordshire, England. The site was formerly a Great Western Railway engine shed and locomotive stabling point. Didcot Railway Centre is situated 1 mile southeast of Didcot power stations.
Didcot Girls’ School
School
Didcot Girls' School is a secondary school with academy status for students in Didcot, Oxfordshire and the surrounding rural area. The school was awarded Language College and Enterprise College status in 2006. Didcot Girls’ School is situated 1¼ miles south of Didcot power stations.
Transfer Shed Approximately 420 Metres North West Of Didcot Railway Shed
Building
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Transfer Shed Approximately 420 Metres North West Of Didcot Railway Shed is a building, which is situated 1 mile southeast of Didcot power stations.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sutton Courtenay and Didcot.
Sutton Courtenay
Village
Photo: Motacilla, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sutton Courtenay is a village and civil parish in the Vale of White Horse district of Oxfordshire, England. It is situated on the south bank of the River Thames 2 miles south of Abingdon-on-Thames and 3 miles northwest of Didcot.
Didcot
Didcot is a town in South Oxfordshire, England. If you are a rail enthusiast, you may be interested in Didcot because it is the home of the Didcot Rail Centre.
Milton
Village
Photo: Des Blenkinsopp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Milton is a village and civil parish about 3 miles west of Didcot and a similar distance south of Abingdon. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 1,290.
Didcot power stations
- Categories: group, geographic location, and industry
- Location: Sutton Courtenay, Vale of White Horse District, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Norwegian Bokmål—“Didcot power stations” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Elektriciteitscentrales Didcot”
- German: “Kraftwerke Didcot”
- Japanese: “ディドコット発電所”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Didcot kraftverk”
- Norwegian: “Didcot kraftverk”
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