Harwell
Harwell is a locality in Vale of White Horse District, Oxfordshire, England. Harwell is situated nearby to the hamlet Rowstock, as well as near the village West Hagbourne.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Matthew and Didcot Parkway railway station.
Didcot Parkway railway station
Railway station
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Didcot Parkway is a railway station serving Didcot, a town in Oxfordshire, England. The station was opened as Didcot on 12 June 1844 and was renamed Didcot Parkway on 29 July 1985 by British Rail, to reflect its role as a park and ride railhead. Didcot Parkway railway station is situated 2½ miles northeast of Harwell.
Didcot Railway Centre
Museum
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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 2½ miles northeast of Harwell.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Didcot and Harwell.
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.
Harwell
Village
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Harwell is a village and civil parish in the Vale of White Horse about 2 miles west of Didcot, 6 miles east of Wantage and 13 miles south of Oxford, England.
East Hendred
Village
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East Hendred is a village and civil parish about 4 miles east of Wantage in the Vale of White Horse and a similar distance west of Didcot. The village is on East Hendred Brook, which flows from the Berkshire Downs to join the River Thames at Sutton Courtenay.
Harwell
- Type: Locality
- Location: Vale of White Horse District, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.5985° or 51° 35′ 55″ northLongitude
-1.2915° or 1° 17′ 30″ westElevation
259 feet (79 metres)Open location code
9C3WHPX5+C9GeoNames ID
7292144
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