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Didcot
By admin | March 22, 2008
Didcot is a town in South Oxfordshire, England.
North of the Goring Gap and south of Oxford, Oxfordshire opens out into a broad plain, overlooked from the south and east by the Berkshire Downs and the Chiltern Hills. In the midst of this plain, Didcot stands out because of its signature, a huge coal-fired electricity generating plant.
Didcot grew up because it lies at the point where the Great Western Railway’s line north to Oxford and Birmingham branches off from the main line from London to Bristol and Cardiff. Since then a large military depot, now replaced by a business park, and the power station, have added to the economy.
If the above makes you think that Didcot sounds like an inappropriate destination for a tourist, you would probably be right. However, if you are a rail enthusiast, you may think differently as Didcot is the home of the Didcot Rail Centre. And if you need to stay in Didcot because of business or personal commitments, don’t despair, there are plenty of interesting places nearby.
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