Didcot

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Didcot
Didcot Center
Didcot Center
Coordinates 51 ° 37 ′  N , 1 ° 15 ′  W Coordinates: 51 ° 37 ′  N , 1 ° 15 ′  W
Didcot (England)
Didcot
Didcot
Residents 22,762 (as of 2001)
administration
Post town Didcot
ZIP code section OX11
prefix 01235
Part of the country England
region South East England
Shire county Oxfordshire
District South Oxfordshire
British Parliament Wantage
Website: Didcot Town Council
Didcot Powerstation

Didcot is a town of 22,000 people in south Oxfordshire , 16 km south of Oxford . Didcot belonged to Berkshire until a border change in 1974 .

Didcot was an important railway junction in the First World War , as a connection for the routes from London , Bristol and Oxford to Southampton had been here since 1882 . The railway line was expanded to meet the requirements of World War II in 1942/43, but in 1966 the connection to Southampton was closed.

Didcot is best known today because of the controversial Didcot Powerstation . The two blocks of the power station, with a total of six cooling towers , were voted third in the UK's 10 worst malignancies by readers of Country Life 2003 magazine .

In the past, environmental protests have also sparked at the power plant, which runs on coal , natural gas and biogas . The Didcot A power plant stopped producing electricity in March 2013. On July 27, 2014, three cooling towers were blown up as part of the demolition of power plant A. When a large boiler house collapsed on February 22, 2016, there were dead and injured.

Since 2012 there has been a town partnership with the Bavarian town of Planegg .

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  1. BBC report
  2. Didcot power station towers demolished on BBC News , July 27, 2014, accessed July 27, 2014
  3. Four deaths feared from Die Rheinpfalz , February 25, 2016, accessed on February 27, 2016
  4. https://www.merkur.de/lokales/wuermtal/planegg/planegg-didcot- Werden-partner- 2260261.html

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