Harwell Village

Past and present. A collection of articles and photos about Harwell.

Keep Harwell Rural

Posted on Filed Under: 21st Century, Harwell Organisation, Housing Development, Keep Harwell Rural, Planning, Present, Traffic Tagged With:

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 […]

Last modified by

Village which featured in the Domesday Book is to get 4,000 new houses

Posted on Filed Under: 21st Century, Housing Development, Planning, Present

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 […]

Last modified by

Article Categories

Article Keywords (Tags)

1590 1611 1852 1914 1915 1917 1918 1920 1921 1932 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1960s 1970s 1971 1976 1993 Aunt Sally Bargain Stone Church Bells Coral Rag Doctors Eric Greenwood Gloster Meteor Great Fire Greensand High Street History Trail Jubilee Meadows Kicking Donkey Millenium Parish Clerk RAF Railway Recreation Ground Sarsens Street Names The Hive Traffic UKAEA War Memorial WI

Photo Keywords (tags)

21 children 1000 years 1892 1893 1900 1912 1914 1921 1930 1932 1950 Americans Box Cottage Cherry Pickers Church Bells Drinking Dr Rice Empire Day Fancy Dress Gardens GP Grandmother Harwell School High Street Hitchman Kicking Donkey Kings Lane Ladder making Map Men Pillar House Pryors shop Pub RAF Harwell Sexton Shop Snow Street The Cleave The Park undertaker Wedding wife Winter