Sutton Wick
Bridleway to Sutton Wick
Sutton Wick is located in Oxfordshire
Sutton Wick
Sutton Wick
Location within Oxfordshire
OS grid referenceSU480945
Civil parish
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townAbingdon
Postcode districtOX14
Dialling code01235
PoliceThames Valley
FireOxfordshire
AmbulanceSouth Central
UK Parliament
WebsiteDrayton near Abingdon

Sutton Wick is a hamlet contiguous with the village of Drayton in Oxfordshire, England. It was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire.

Air crash

A Blackburn Beverley C.Mk 1 heavy transport aircraft on a flight from RAF Abingdon crashed at Sutton Wick on 5 March 1957. All but four of the 22 people aboard were killed in the accident, and two people were killed on the ground.[1]

References

  1. Accident description at the Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved on 6 January 2010.


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