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Didcot

A civil parish and rail town, Didcot (/ˈdɪdkɒt, -kət/ DID-kot, -⁠kət) is in the Berkshire historic county and Oxfordshire. Didcot was then a rural Berkshire village, and, appearing in records, it remained so for centuries. To the north and east of the rail on the former marshland, the Ladygrove development is set to double the number of homes in the town since construction began in the late 1980s and in Oxfordshire, Didcot as one of the areas of major growth has been designated.

Didcot was in Berkshire until 1974, but was transferred to Oxfordshire in that year, and becoming the largest town in the district from Wallingford Rural District to the South Oxfordshire. Ladygrove Park, All Saints' C of E, Northbourne C of E, Manor, Willowcroft, and Stephen Freeman are primary schools that serve Didcot. The chapter of the Hash House Harriers, Didcot has it.

To promote the playing of table tennis in Didcot, the Didcot & District Table Tennis Association (DDTTA) was established in 1949. Didcot was a village of tenants, tradespeople, and landowners with about a 120 population in the 16th-century. In 1983, in John Lloyd and Douglas Adams' book that is humorous, the Liff meaning, it was noted Didcot's synonymous connection with railways.

During the First World War campaign on the Western Front and the Second World War preparations for D-Day, Didcot's junction of the routes to London, Oxford, Bristol, and via the Newbury, Southampton, and Didcot way (DN&S) to Southampton made the militarily important. Didcot Girls' School and St Birinus School are schools that at sixth form join together are state-funded secondary schools in Didcot.

In 2015, Didcot was named by the United Kingdom government a garden town existing to gain this status, providing funding to support sustainable and environmentally friendly development over the coming 15 years. Didcot Leisure Centre, Didcot Wave Leisure Pool and Willowbrook Leisure Centre include main centres that Didcot has. It has, since 2005, been represented by Ed Vaizey, Conservative, at Westminster, Didcot is the largest town in the parliamentary constituency of Wantage.

Didcot is surrounded by one of the largest scientific clusters, as part of the SV Enterprise Zone. Having moved off Station Road from their pitch that was previous to make way for the development of a supermarket in 1999, the Football Club, Didcot Town's home ground is on the Ladygrove Estate, the Draycott Engineering Loop Meadow Stadium.