New on this site June 2026
Updates this month include information about:
- The former poet laureate who penned a poem entitled “Toot Baldon”
- The role that Marsh Baldon played in the 17th Century English Civil War
- A Baldons family, records of whom span almost 500 years
- The monument that moved from Nuneham Courtenay to Marsh Baldon and back again
- The Busy Bees children’s group founded in the 1940s
- A Marsh Baldon man 'Poor Old White', persecuted for his religious beliefs in 1839.
There are also some updates on the 'Further Information about World War One men' page.
New on this site March 2026
We will continually be updating and adding new material to this website. The latest changes include a series of short articles written by John Wright, further pages on items from our exhibition, additional photographs, and new material, for example, pages on
More information has been added to the pages about cricket, pubs, Baldon Feast, and various other minor changes made.
This website has been created by the Baldons Local History Group as a first phase of sharing information that we are collecting about the history of the Baldons - Marsh Baldon, Toot Baldon and Little Baldon. It is very much a work in progress and will be expanded as we collect further information.
We are a small group of Baldons residents who think that our small Oxfordshire villages deserve to have their stories told. Our work so far has built on a Local History Project conducted in 2001, which led to an exhibition in St Peter's Church, Marsh Baldon.
Find out more about the project here.
In November last year we held a very well-attended exhibition over a weekend with 90 people visiting on each of the days. Most of the material exhibited can be found on this website and some more besides.
We hope you will find something on these pages that piques
your interest. If so, we'd love to hear from you. It would be great to find out how you might want to become involved in taking our local history forward! You can contact us here.
Thank you to Mavis Burley for allowing us to use her beautiful painting of cricket on Marsh Baldon Green as our website banner.