Cemeteries · West Midlands
Didcot Cemetery
Also known as: Didcot
Didcot Cemetery is a cemetery in the United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 30 min–1 h
- Nearest railway station
- Didcot Parkway · 0.9 km
- Free entry
- Dog-friendly
About
Didcot Cemetery is a cemetery in Oxfordshire, the West Midlands of architectural and local-history note. The site is within the North Wessex Downs National Landscape (AONB). It sits within the Didcot and Wantage parliamentary constituency. The nearest railway station is Didcot Parkway, about 0.9 km away. Postcode area OX11.
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Protected designations
- Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty: North Wessex Downs
Designations sourced from Natural England open data under OGL v3.
From the Wikipedia article
Didcot ( DID-kot, -kət) is a railway town and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England, located 15 miles (24 km) south of Oxford, 10 miles (16 km) east of Wantage and 15 miles (24 km) north west of Reading. Historically part of Berkshire, the town is noted for its railway heritage, Didcot station opening as a junction station on the Great Western Main Line in 1844. Today the town is known for the railway museum and as the gateway town to the Science Vale: three large science and technology centres in the surrounding villages of Milton (Milton Park), Culham (Culham Science Centre) and Harwell (Harwell Science and Innovation Campus which includes the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory).
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Background
Visiting
Didcot's synonymous connection with railways was noted in Douglas Adams and John Lloyd's humorous book the Meaning of Liff, published in 1983. The book, a "dictionary of things that there aren't any words for yet", referred to "a Didcot" as "The small, oddly shaped bit of card which a ticket inspector cuts out of a ticket with his clipper for no apparent reason". Didcot is referred to in Ricky Gervais' comedy feature film David Brent: Life on the Road: the song "Lady Gypsy" on the film's soundtrack tells of a romantic meeting "by the lakeside, just south of Didcot". An electricity pylon on farmland alongside Abingdon Road (opposite Tamar Way) on the eastern edge of Didcot featured on the…
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- Coordinates
- 51.6031, -1.2444
- County
- Oxfordshire
- District
- South Oxfordshire
- Parish
- Didcot
- Postcode
- OX11 8PW
- Parliamentary constituency
- Didcot and Wantage
- Nearest railway station
- Didcot Parkway — 0.9 km
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Didcot Cemetery?
- Didcot Cemetery is in Oxfordshire, the West Midlands, United Kingdom (postcode OX11 8PW), in the parish of Didcot.
- Is Didcot Cemetery a protected site?
- Yes — Didcot Cemetery is part of the North Wessex Downs National Landscape (AONB).
- How do I get to Didcot Cemetery?
- The nearest railway station is Didcot Parkway, about 0.9 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode OX11 8PW.