Welcome to the Harwell Village Parish Council website
New on the Web Site
- Harwell News No 150, June 2008.
- Minutes of June Council Meeting
- Interim Minutes of May 2008 Annual Parish Meeting, approved by Council for interim release pending full approval of the minutes at the 2009 APM.
Sunday 27 July 2008
The Royal British Legion, Harwell, are parading on Sunday, and there will be road closures for this.
1400-1415. Gaveston Road, High Street, Church Lane, Church.
1515-1530. Church, Church Lane, High Street, Wantage Road, Westfield, Legion.
Details of the closures here, with a map.
X32 Bus Service
Due to roadworks affecting Speedwell Street and St. Aldates the X32 will start and finish from stop I outside Hobbs in the HIGH STREET, Oxford from August 4th until the 21st November 2008. The inward route will change and be via Donnington Bridge Road, Iffley Road, The Plain, High Street.
The outward route from OXFORD will be via Abingdon Road. The X32 will NOT serve stop H5 in St. Aldates. After leaving stop I in the High Street the next stop will be outside the Police Station, St. Aldates.
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
As well as the Harwell News, all the formal Parish Council minutes from 2000 to 2005 are now in the archives.
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.
