Little Baldon is a small rural village in Oxfordshire, just 5 miles southeast of Oxford. The area is characterised by its village setting, with a notable historical event – the 1965 Little Baldon air crash – and a close proximity to the larger town of Oxford.
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Little Baldon is a village and civil parish about 5 miles (8 km) southeast of Oxford in Oxfordshire, England. The parish also includes the hamlet of Little Baldon. The Little Baldon air crash occurred on 6 July 1965 when a Handley Page Hastings C1A transport aircraft operated by No. 36 Squadron Royal Air Force, registration TG577, crashed into a field in Little Baldon, near Chiselhampton, Oxfordshire, shortly after taking off from RAF Abingdon. The flight was captained by Flt Lt John Akin. All 41 people aboard, including six crew, perished in the crash, making it the third worst air crash in the United Kingdom at the time.