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Little Baldon
Brick Barn at Little Baldon Farm
Little Baldon Location within Oxfordshire
OS grid reference	SP5600
Civil parish	Marsh Baldon
District	South Oxfordshire
Shire county	Oxfordshire
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Oxford
Postcode district	OX44
Dialling code	01865

Police	Thames Valley
Fire	Oxfordshire
Ambulance	South Central
UK Parliament	Didcot and Wantage
Website	Baldons Parish Council
List of places UK England Oxfordshire 51°40′41″N 1°11′05″W / 51.678065°N 1.184709°W

Little Baldon is a hamlet in the Marsh Baldon civil parish, about 5 miles (8 km) southeast of Oxford in Oxfordshire, south of Marsh Baldon and west of Chiselhampton.

Little Baldon is near the other "Baldon" villages included in an old rhyme:

Marsh Baldon, Toot Baldon, Baldon on the Green,
Little Baldon, Big Baldon, Baldon-in-between

It is where an RAF Handley Page Hastings crashed in 1965, killing all 41 people aboard.^[1] This was the third worst air crash in the United Kingdom up to that time.^[2] A memorial plaque in the parish church of St Lawrence at Toot Baldon commemorates the disaster.

^ Aviation Safety Network
^ "41 Killed On Parachute Training Flight". The Times. No. 56367. London. 7 July 1965. col C, p. 10.