Harwell Science and Innovation Campus

The Harwell Science and Innovation Campus is a 280-hectare science and technology business park at Didcot in Oxfordshire, England. Over 6,000 people work there in over 240 public and private sector organisations, working across sectors including aerospace, clean energy, life sciences, and quantum computing.

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Type: Industry
Description: Science and technology campus near the villages of Harwell and Chilton, Oxfordshire, England
Also known as: “Harwell Campus”
Address: Curie Avenue, Didcot, OX11 0QG

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Diamond Light Source and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.

Diamond Light Source

Building

Photo: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Diamond Light Source is the UK's national synchrotron light source science facility located at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire. Diamond Light Source is situated 2,100 feet south of Harwell Science and Innovation Campus.

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

Research institute

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The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory is one of the national scientific research laboratories in the UK operated by the Science and Technology Facilities Council. Rutherford Appleton Laboratory is situated 3,400 feet south of Harwell Science and Innovation Campus.

ISIS Neutron and Muon Source

Industrial building

Photo: Sandig, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The ISIS Neutron and Muon Source is a pulsed neutron and muon source at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory of the Science and Technology Facilities Council, on the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus at Didcot in Oxfordshire, England. ISIS Neutron and Muon Source is situated 3,100 feet southwest of Harwell Science and Innovation Campus.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chilton and East Hendred.

Chilton

Village

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Chilton is a village and civil parish in the Vale of White Horse district of Oxfordshire, England, about 3+1⁄2 miles southwest of Didcot. The parish was historically part of Berkshire until the 1974 local government reorganisation transferred it to Oxfordshire.

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. East Hendred is situated 1½ miles northwest of Harwell Science and Innovation Campus.

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. Harwell is situated 1½ miles northeast of Harwell Science and Innovation Campus.

Harwell Science and Innovation Campus

Category: campus
Location: Vale of White Horse District, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.57953° or 51° 34′ 46″ north

Longitude

-1.31173° or 1° 18′ 42″ west

Open location code

9C3WHMHQ+R8

OpenStreetMap ID

way 28829126

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=science_park

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=industrial

Wikidata ID

Q5677831

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