Didcot
Didcot is a Town in the county of Oxfordshire.
There are great places to visit near Didcot including some great ancient sites, cities and shopping centres.
Didcot's best nearby ancient sites can be found at The Rollright Stones, The King Stone, The Whispering Knights, and The Kings Men.
Didcot is near some unmissable cities like Oxford,
Places near Didcot feature a number of interesting shopping centres including Westgate Oxford.
Didcot History
There are some historic monuments around Didcot:
Places to see near Didcot
History of Didcot
The Domesday Book of 1086 does not record Didcot. In 13th-century records the toponym appears as Dudecota, Dudecote, Doudecote, Dudcote or Dudecothe. Some of these spellings continued into later centuries, and were joined by Dodecote from the 14th century onward, Dudcott from the 16th century onward and Didcott from the 17th century onward. It is derived from Old English, meaning the house or shelter of Dudda’s people. The name is believed to be derived from that of Dida, a 7th-century Mercian sub-king who ruled the area around Oxford and was the father of Saint Frithuswith or Frideswide, now the patron saint of both Oxford and Oxford University.
