Little Baldon


Little Baldon is a hamlet in the Marsh Baldon Civil [parishes in England|civil parish], about southeast of Oxford in Oxfordshire, south of Marsh Baldon and west of Chiselhampton.
Little Baldon is near the other "Baldon" villages included in an old rhyme:
Marsh Baldon, Toot Baldon, Baldon on the Green,
Little Baldon, Big Baldon, Baldon-in-between

It is where an RAF Handley Page Hastings Little Baldon [air crash|crashed in 1965], killing all 41 people aboard. This was the third worst air crash in the United Kingdom up to that time. A memorial plaque in the parish church of St Lawrence at Toot Baldon commemorates the disaster.