South East England
Oxfordshire
South Oxfordshire District

Didcot

Didcot is a town in South , . If you are a rail enthusiast, you may be interested in Didcot because it is the home of the Didcot Rail Centre.
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  • Type: Town with 29,300 residents
  • Description: town and civil parish in Oxfordshire, UK; formerly in Berkshire
  • Also known as: “Didcot, Oxfordshire” and “Didcot, Oxon”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Didcot Parkway railway station and Didcot Railway Centre.

Railway station
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Didcot Parkway is a railway station serving Didcot, a town in , 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.

Museum
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is a railway museum and preservation engineering site in Didcot, , England. The site was formerly a Great Western Railway engine shed and locomotive stabling point.

Movie theater
Photo: Bill Nicholls, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a movie theater.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Harwell and Upton.

Village
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is a village and civil parish in the about 2 miles west of Didcot, 6 miles east of and 13 miles south of , England.

Village
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is a spring line village and civil parish at the foot of the Berkshire Downs, about 2 miles south of Didcot in the district.

Village
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is a village and civil parish on the south bank of the about 2 miles north of Didcot, in the district, in . is situated 2½ miles north of Didcot.

Didcot

Latitude
51.6064° or 51° 36′ 23″ north
Longitude
-1.246° or 1° 14′ 46″ west
Population
29,300
Elevation
190 feet (58 metres)
IATA airport code
XPW
United Nations Location Code
GB DID
Open location code
9C3WJQ43+GJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 267769544
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2651269
Wiki­data ID
Q1009242
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Welsh—“Didcot” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Didcot”
  • Basque: “Didcot”
  • Bengali: “ডিডকট”
  • Catalan: “Didcot”
  • Cebuano: “Didcot”
  • Chinese: “Didcot”
  • Chinese: “迪德科特”
  • Chinese: “迪高特鎮”
  • Chinese: “迪高特镇”
  • Dutch: “Didcot”
  • Finnish: “Didcot”
  • French: “Didcot”
  • Georgian: “დიდკოტი”
  • German: “Didcot”
  • Greek: “Ντίντκοτ”
  • Gujarati: “ડિડકોટ”
  • Hebrew: “דידקוט”
  • Irish: “Didcot”
  • Italian: “Didcot”
  • Japanese: “ジドコット”
  • Japanese: “ディドコット”
  • Kannada: “ಡಿಡ್ಕಾಟ್”
  • Korean: “디드코”
  • Ladin: “Didcot”
  • Latin: “Didcot”
  • Latin: “Dudecota”
  • Latvian: “Didkota”
  • Lithuanian: “Didkotas”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Didcot”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Didcot”
  • Persian: “دیدکات”
  • Polish: “Didcot”
  • Portuguese: “Didcot”
  • Romanian: “Didcot”
  • Russian: “Дидкот”
  • Slovenian: “Didcot”
  • South Azerbaijani: “دیدکات”
  • Spanish: “Didcot”
  • Swedish: “Didcot”
  • Tamil: “டிட்கோட்”
  • Telugu: “డిడ్కాట్”
  • Turkish: “Didcot”
  • Ukrainian: “Дідкот”
  • Urdu: “دیدکوت”
  • Vietnamese: “Didcot”
  • Volapük: “Didcot”
  • Welsh: “Didcot”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Didcot”. Photo: Jim, CC BY 2.0.