Watchfield

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Watchfield






Statistics
Population:
Ordnance Survey
OS grid reference:	SU248904
Administration
Parish:	Watchfield
District:	Vale of White Horse
Shire county:	Oxfordshire
Region:	South East England
Constituent country:	England
Sovereign state:	United Kingdom
Other
Ceremonial county:	Oxfordshire
Services
Police force:	Thames Valley Police
Ambulance service:	South Central
Post office and telephone
Post town:	Swindon
Postal district:	SN6
Dialling code:	01793
Politics
UK Parliament:	Wantage
European Parliament:	South East England

Watchfield is a village and civil parish, near Shrivenham and the A420, in the English county of Oxfordshire (formerly in Berkshire)

1 Character and amenities
2 Geography
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Character and amenities

Watchfield is mainly comprised of military accommodation for the Joint Services Command and Staff College (JSCSC) and the Conflict Studies Research Centre (CSRC) in the parish, as well as for the Defence College of Management and Technology and Cranfield University across the boundary in Shrivenham.

Local amenities include the Eagle public house, located in the heart of the old village. Watchfield Post Office is located on the High Street. A purpose built mini-industrial estate near the A420 road houses the College Farm public house, a Midcounties Co-operative supermarket, a unisex hairdressers, curry house, opticians and a McDonald's.

The UK's largest community-owned wind farm, Westmill Wind Farm Co-operative, is planned for the village.^[1]

[edit] Geography

As with nearby Shrivenham, a common element of confusion is that Watchfield has the Swindon postal code and Swindon telephone area code, despite being located in a different county: Oxfordshire rather than Wiltshire.