Chilton, Oxon Web Sites

Chilton is an old village, one of the most southerly parishes of Oxfordshire, located on the Berkshire Downs in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, just to the North of the Ridgeway National Trail.
The parish is divided into 2 parts by a four lane highway, the A34.

Residents traditionally earned their living by working on the flat area known as Chilton Field and lived in the hillier part to the East. There are several parts to this page:

• Sites associated with Chilton Field
• Sites associated with All Saint's Church
• Chilton business sites
• Other nearby sites or maintained by Chilton residents
• Sites with information about Oxfordshire and maps to show you where we are.

Web Sites for Chilton Field

These scientific establishments grew out of the RAF Harwell which was built in Chilton and Harwell during the Second World War.

• The Atomic Energy Authority (AEA)
  Harwell Laboratory Social Activities, news of the Harwell(IBC)
  
  • List of Community clubs
  • Recreational Association
• The Medical Research Council Unit MRC
• On 1 April 2005 the National Radiological Protection Board( NRPB ) became part of the Health Protection Agency, with a new website at www.hpa.org.uk/radiation/. All are welcome at thier Chilton Seminars held in the Lecture Theatre of RAL. Check the website for details of the current programme.
• The Committee on Radioactive Waste Management is an independent government appointed Committee charged with making recommendations on the long-term future management of the UK's higher activity radioactive wastes.
  An Open meeting relating to the Harwell/Culham site was held in Wallingford in May
  
  
• The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, (RAL) including:
  • ISIS, the highest intensity spallation neutron source in the World
  • The diamond light source currently under construction
  • Ukerna who run the academic network from the Atlas Centre
• PFE Ltd. a private company based in the Atlas Centre

The following sites are built on Chilton Field but are not large scientific establishments:

• Click here for information about the Harwell Bicycle User Group and the Sustrans plans for a cycle path along the old railway line from Didcot to Upton, perhaps to Chilton some day.
• Chilton Primary School
• Ken Messer watercolour artist, 7 Severn Road Chilton, Oxon OX11 OPW
  tel:(01235) 834361 email: info@kenmesser.co.uk

Sites associated with All Saints' Church

• The Parishes of Harwell and Chilton giving times of services and other events in All Saints' Parish Church.
• Some information about All Saints' church Memorial Inscriptions
• Chilton Bells including the restoration of 2000, and practice times

Chilton business sites

• C.Y.O. seeds Limetree Farm, Chilton, entrance from the road towards Didcot over Hagborne Hill just past Townend, on the south side.
• Chilton House apartments for rent
• Chilton Wyevale Garden Centre
• The headquarters of Blue Circle Cement moved to the new building just West of the Holloway opposite Townend. They were bought up by Lafarge Cement about 2001.
• Rural Carriages run a taxi service.

Other Sites nearby or Maintained by Chilton residents

• Blewbury village
• The British Crystallographic Association site is maintained by a resident
• East Hagbourne village
• The Friends of the Ridgeway who aim to conserve the Ridgeway National Trail for peaceful uses.
• Harwell Parish
• The History of Physics site of the Institute of Physics
• If you have a fancy browser which understands java, you may find something useful on the UK Villages site, try selecting Oxfordshire first, then look for an interesting village.

Other useful Sites

• Nearest Public Library is in Didcot, you can access the Oxon library Catalogue on the Internet, some day you will be able to request books that way.

• South Oxfordshire
• Vale of the White Horse
• West Berkshire includes tourism and community events.

• Ordnance Survey Maps of the UK
• MultiMap