Welcome to the Harwell Village Parish Council website
New on the Web Site
- Harwell News No 149, April 2008.
- Affordable Housing. A Question and Answer page about Affordable Housing and the current plans for it in the village.
- Harwell News Archives. Thanks to diligent scanning by Martin Ricketts, all the Harwell News from 1975 to 1993 are now available on-line. Fascinating Reading!
- Parish Council Minutes Archives. As well as the Harwell News, all the formal Parish Council minutes from 2000 to 2005 are now in the archives. Minutes from 2005 onwards are here.
- Full, illustrated, text of Village for a thousand years.
Annual Parish Meeting
This will take place on Thursday May 29th, 8 p.m., in the Freeman Hall.
Village for a thousand years
In 1985 Harwell celebrated its first millennium, and to celebrate, a book, Village for a thousand years, was compiled as a souvenir of Harwell's recorded life of one thousand years.
The book is now out of print, but the Harwell Parish Council has decided to publish it here on their web site, so that the history and recollections of the village can be available to a new generation.
Browse the book, and remember the shortcut: village4a1000years.com
Neighbourhood watch, 8 April 2008
There has been a recent increase in Anti-Social Behaviour and criminal damage offences in the area of Harwell. As your local Police Community Support Officer, please could I ask that all offences of Anti-Social Behaviour and criminal offences are reported to the police using the non emergency number of 08458 505 505 or the 999 system if a crime is in progress. The Police are involved in a multi agency approach to combat such behaviour along with Vale Housing, Environmental Health and Schools.
Thank you - Barry Gills PCSO.
How to look after an old house
Marianne Suhr (of BBC Restoration Programme Fame) has put together a course on how to look after an old house. This course is to be held in Blewbury in a historic barn on Saturday May 10th 2008 (9.30- 5.15). The course will cover the following topics:
- Understanding your house- construction and dating techniques
- Dealing with damp
- Timber frame repairs
- Lime plasters and renders
- Thatching, wattle and daub and lime-washing demonstration
- Case Study: the repair of Cottrills
About our Village
Harwell is a village in South Oxfordshire. The A417 runs east-west (lower left of picture) and most of the village lies north of that road.
The Map Reference of the War Memorial, which is roughly in the centre of the village, is SU 491 892. The village is 260 feet above sea-level, although the sea is over 50 miles away.
We are about 60 miles north of the Isle of Wight, 60 miles west of London, 60 miles east of Bristol, and 60 miles south of Coventry.
Historically we have always been a Berkshire village, but since 1974 we have been part of Oxfordshire, and are on the west of the Vale of White Horse. We are roughly half way between Oxford (North) and Newbury (South), and between Reading (East) and Swindon (West).
We are close to the North South trunk road, the A34, and a few miles from Didcot (new shops), and the railway at Didcot Parkway station for trains to London Paddington, the west country, and the north via Oxford and Birmingham..
The boundaries of the Parish reach beyond the village, from the Harwell Business Centre (previously UKAEA) in the south, to the Milton Trading Estate in the north.
