Scanned, so please excuse the moiré patterns.
Keep Harwell Rural
The aim of the Keep Harwell Rural (KHR) Campaign was to give residents of Harwell the opportunity to have a voice in matters that affect the future of the village. The campaign no longer operates and was wound up in 2017. Follow this link to find an archive of the Keep Harwell Rural website and […]
Village which featured in the Domesday Book is to get 4,000 new houses
This article appeared in the Mail On-line on 28 April 2016 just after planning permission was granted for the Valley Park development. A village which dates back to the Domesday Book is set to be ‘engulfed’ by a new estate consisting of 4,000 houses – after the council created a green ‘buffer zone’ just 115ft […]
Harwell History Exhibition
Sat and Sun 3 and 4 October. 11am – 4pm. 30 years since the village millennium. 100 years since WW1. Almshouse 300 years old???!!! Please come and support us we have lots of new research to show you. Refreshments.
Village Doctors
Remembering General Medical Practice in the 60s and 70s in Harwell Village. These retired GPs, Diana Scott, Bill Couldrick and Alan Wagner remember family doctoring in the 60s and 70s
Jubilee Playground
Photos of the construction of the new playground, and of its opening on 27th October 2012
The last receptionist
Amy Smith was the last GP’s receptionist to work in the Harwell Surgery. Amy has a fascinating story to tell including the strange way she was recruited. Amy describes how she was recruited and ran a doctors surgery in an English country doctors practice in the 1960s. The waiting room and doctors consulting room shown […]
Harwell Past and Present
This article was first published in May 2003 as part of the Harwell Parish Plan. In 1985 Harwell celebrated one thousand years as a village. Over that period there have been many changes, but perhaps none so significant as those in the modern era. From its roots as a small village steeped in a rural […]