Culham
Culham is a village on the north bank of the River Thames near Abingdon in southern Oxfordshire.
The parish church of St. Paul is largely Victorian, in a 13th century style. The old bridge over the Thames was built in 1416-1422 by the Abingdon Guild of the Holy Trinity.
Near the village is the site of HMS Hornbill, a World War II airfield used by the Fleet Air Arm, also known as RNAS Culham.
The airfield now houses the Culham Science Centre, an 800,000 square metre scientific research site and home to the nuclear fusion experiment JET.
Just outside the village was Culham College, a teacher training college established in 1852 by Bishop Samuel Wilberforce. Its buildings are in a style described by Nikolaus Pevsner as "institutional Victorian Gothic at its grimmest". It is now occupied by the European School, Culham (Schola Europaea), which is a private secondary school opened in 1975 to educate the children of scientists working on the JET project.
Culham Institute is an offshoot of the former Culham teacher training college. It is a small charitable research organisation associated with the Church of England and housed in the Educational Studies Department of Oxford University.
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Categories: Villages in Oxfordshire