The town of Didcot is truly one of the shining gems in the lovely county of Oxfordshire. Though it is no doubt beautiful and lovely, the true worth of Didcot is evident in how old it is. Researchers have learned that Didcot's roots stretch all the way back to the Iron Age. The importance of this can't be stressed enough. Most English towns find their birthplace somewhere around the time of Norman conquests or Saxon rule. Some of the oldest ones arose during the death of the Roman Empire but Didcot puts nearly every other English town to shame with its seniority.
For several centuries Didcot was little more than a cozy marshland hamlet that was home to around one hundred people or so. What is funny is that now Didcot is a rather large and advanced town that is home to over twenty thousand people as well some very prestigious landmarks and buildings. Much of the county of Oxfordshire is still rather quaint and so Didcot became something of a de facto metropolis at least as far as the county is concerned. This is comical because for most of Didcot's history it was the smallest village around and frequently was made to feel inferior to the only slightly larger hamlets around.
By all accounts Didcot is a truly indispensable English city these days and can be seen as something of a success story for other burgeoning towns to follow. Some of the most important and prestigious scientific facilities in England are in fact located right in Didcot and these include such technological stalwarts as the UKAEA, the Diamond Light Source Synchrotron, The Science and Technology Facilities Council and Harwell Laboratory. In addition, Didcot is known for having the highest life expectancy of anywhere else in the United Kingdom. A recent survey placed the average life expectancy of a person in the United Kingdom as sixty eight for women and sixty seven for men. In Didcot, however, the life expectancy is a staggering eighty six years! For the record, the town of Middlesbrough comes in at the lowest with an average life expectancy of fifty four years. A slightly less notable aspect of Didcot (but still one that is fairly admirable) is the fact that the town is the home of William Bradbery. Though he isn't a household name he is the first person to commercially cultivate watercress. The town of Didcot is still growing and is becoming more and more beautiful every day. There are few places in England that have managed to keep getting larger without having any form of growing pains. As such Didcot serves as the perfect example of a city doing everything right. Anybody who hasn't been to this lovely slice of earth in Oxfordshire would do well to pay a visit as soon as possible in order to return back to their home city and teach their neighbors a thing or two about the way Didcot does things in an effort to make every city as lovely as this one.
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