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44-728: The Osse Stream or Osse Ditch , otherwise known as the Appleton Brook , is a small stream in the Vale of White Horse in Oxfordshire (historically in Berkshire). The stream is a tributary of the River Ock , with its confluence near Marcham Mill. The stream rises at a pond in Cumnor, flowing past Besselsleigh , Appleton , Fyfield , Frilford and Marcham . The hydronym Osse appears to be derived from

88-515: A Local Development Order (LDO), which is a simplified ten-day planning policy agreed as part of a partnership with the Vale of White Horse District Council . The 2012 LDO has delivered 14 buildings (laboratory and technology space), 550,000 sq. ft of floorspace and 1,000 jobs. Milton Park’s 2040 Vision sets out plans for how Milton Park will grow over the next 20 years, creating 10,000 new jobs across new, flexible sustainable innovation space. A new, refreshed LDO (Local Development Order) will play

132-489: A cycle hub, car parking with EV charging and kitchens with breakout areas. After repurposing an existing building formerly occupied by education technology provider RM , Bee House opened its doors on World Bee Day , 20 May 2022, with a high percentage of embodied energy saved within the fabric of the building. Milton Park’s Bee House has its own sustainable urban drainage system (SUDS) that attracts wildlife and helps prevent flooding. A water course previously screened by

176-510: A key part in supporting the 2040 vision, creating thousands of new jobs and permitting up to 4.2 million sq ft across the Park, an increase from nearly three million sq. ft. A number of flagship and notable buildings came forward from the original 2012 LDO. These include: Bee House offers a variety of flexible offices, co-working and meeting rooms including a 145-seat conference facility, the Hive Café,

220-466: A low-cost bus pass, free bike and e-bike hire and a car-sharing scheme. Results from Milton Park’s 2023 Travel Survey show that more than 50% of those that travelled to the Park in 2023 used sustainable modes such as bus, bike, and car sharing, than by single occupancy cars. Since the Covid-19 pandemic, bus usage to and from Milton Park has increased by 18%. Milton Park was used as a testing location for

264-465: A mass of sandstone (a sarsen ) pierced with holes in such a way that, when blown like a trumpet, it produces a loud note. It is believed that, in earlier times, the stone served the purpose of a bugle. Several of the village churches in the Vale are of interest, notably the fine Early English cruciform building at Uffington, that has an octagonal tower and is known as The Cathedral of the Vale . Farming

308-487: A range of sectors, ranging from green energy start-ups to fusion energy and with a large life science cluster comprising over 800,000 sq ft of laboratories. Major occupiers at Milton Park include but are not limited to: According to a 2023 report from analytics firm Beauhurst, Milton Park companies have secured over 7% of the UK’s total life science investment, with £2.14bn of equity investment generated across 272 occupiers over

352-596: A variety of amenities including cafés, food outlets, a gym with a swimming pool, pharmacy, Post Office, Amazon lockers, MOT centre and a day nursery. Milton Park is held in the MEPC Milton LP joint venture partnership two long-term pension fund shareholders, Federated Hermes and CPP and is operated by MEPC Ltd, a specialist real estate development and asset operating platform within Federated Hermes . Located in southern Oxfordshire , approximately 12 miles south of

396-548: A variety of charity and business networks, a school engagement programme, stakeholder and occupier events and onsite amenities. Milton Park is a founding member and quantum donor of the Didcot Powerhouse Fund, a charity launched to tackle deprivation and inequality levels within Greater Didcot and the surrounding area. Didcot Powerhouse Fund is administered by registered charity, Oxfordshire Community Foundation and

440-509: Is an Iron Age hill fort named Uffington Castle , after the village in the vale below. Within a short distance are Hardwell Castle , a near-square work and, on the southern slope of the hills near Ashdown House , a small camp traditionally called Alfred's Castle . Further to the West, there is Liddington Castle . A smooth, steep gully on the north flank of White Horse Hill is called the Manger, and to

484-725: Is commonly referred to as the 'Vale of the White Horse'. It is crossed by the Ridgeway National Trail in its far south, across the North Wessex Downs AONB at the junction of four counties. The northern boundary is defined by the River Thames . The name refers to Uffington White Horse , a prehistoric hill figure . As well as being a local authority district, the Vale of White Horse is a geographical, historical and cultural region . The name "Vale of White Horse" predates

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528-430: Is mostly arable . In livestock the range is mixed. The area had a large dairy industry, especially in the 1960s, but it was much reduced by the 21st century, with the large fertile fields supported by subsidies. The Lockinge Estate is a longstanding agricultural employer within the region. Natural mineral resources are mined (quarried) in the Vale. These include sand , gravel and (formerly) Fuller's Earth . With

572-492: Is now one of Milton Park‘s largest occupiers. 95 Park Drive has been developed to accommodate new biology laboratories, collaborative workspaces and meeting rooms. The facility was designed with a particular focus on sustainability and incorporates air source heat pumps, a demand-based laboratory ventilation system, as well as low energy lighting and appliances. Milton Park has incentives and schemes in place to encourage and increase more sustainable travel for occupiers, including

616-455: Is one of the Park’s largest occupiers alongside Adaptimmune and Immunocore Now Nasdaq-listed, these companies also started life as Oxford University spinout Avidex, and all three started in the war-time buildings. Milton Park’s last two remaining single-storey wartime buildings, 57 and 59 Jubilee Avenue, were demolished in 2024 to make way for future development. Occupiers at Milton Park cover

660-474: Is served by the following bus services all operated by Thames Travel : X2 (Oxford-Abingdon-Milton Park-Didcot) X32 (JR Hospital-Oxford-Milton Park-Didcot-GWP South) X36 (Didcot-Milton Park-Grove-Wantage) 33/33A (Abingdon/GWP North-Milton Park-Didcot-Wallingford-Henley) There is a disused siding for rail freight, connected to the Great Western Main Line and the nearest train service

704-522: Is technically a hanging valley ; but local usage sometimes extends the vale to cover all the ground between the Cotswolds (on the north) and the Berkshire Downs. According to the geographical definition, however, the Vale is from two to five miles wide, and the distance by road from Abingdon to Shrivenham at its head is 18 miles. Wantage is the only town in the foot or slopes of the vale (Faringdon, on

748-504: Is to Didcot Parkway station . The project identified a range of passenger benefits from autonomous driving technology which works in partnership with human drivers. The findings support the case for buses to be equipped with greater driver-assistance technologies, similar to the way that smaller vehicles like cars are evolving. Milton Park’s Greener Workplace Forum launched in Spring 2021. Composed of representatives from Park occupiers, it

792-482: The Berkshire Downs and the River Thames on its north and east sides. It is named after the prominent and large Bronze Age -founded Uffington White Horse hill figure. The local government district was formed as part of the 1974 re-organisation , taking in three small Berkshire towns – in descending size order Abingdon , Faringdon and Wantage – and the surrounding rural parishes. There are 68 parishes in

836-640: The Chilterns to Goring and Streatley on the River Thames . It links The Wash and Salisbury Plain , and would have been an important artery for trade. Other earthworks, in addition to those near the White Horse, overlook the Vale, such as Letcombe Castle (also known as Segsbury Camp ) above Wantage . At the foot of the hills, not far east of the Horse, is preserved the so-called Blowing Stone of Kingston Lisle ,

880-524: The Old English word Wase , meaning 'mud'. This Oxfordshire location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to a river in England is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Vale of White Horse The Vale of White Horse is a local government district of Oxfordshire in England. It was historically part of Berkshire . The area

924-629: The University of Oxford . Before it was an innovation community, Milton Park’s history started as an RAF depot during the world wars. The Royal Flying Corps established Milton as a storage depot in 1916 and during the Second World War, RAF ordnance units were built. Milton Depot supplied everything from aircraft parts and uniforms to RAF bases across the South East. The depot remained in military use until 1963, before being auctioned in 1971 to become

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968-525: The Chairman of Oxfordshire County Council , Felix Bloomfield and Philip Campbell from Milton Park on behalf of His Majesty, King Charles III , to commemorate his Coronation , on the day of his 75th birthday .The Milton Wonder cultivar takes its name from a local variety of tree, which dates back to 1810 in the nearby Milton Village and is nationally significant for its age, provenance and excellent fruit. Comprising nearly three million sq ft, Milton Park holds

1012-683: The Fund is managed on a day-to-day basis by the Didcot Powerhouse Fund Advisory Panel. Milton Park hosts its own regular events for occupiers and locals, including networking opportunities, sustainability talks and seasonal events. A sapling grafted from what is thought to be the world’s second oldest standing apple tree in Milton Village was planted at Milton Park by the Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire , Mrs Marjorie Glasgow BEM,

1056-562: The Innovation Centre, with office space ranging from 85 sq ft to 2,200 sq ft (8 – 205 sq. m). Facilities include showers, post and call handling, a business lounge café and catering services, meeting and conference rooms and hot desk facilities. Evotec SE opened its new facility at 95 Park Drive at Milton Park in September 2023. The occupier has been on the Park since its acquisition of Oxford Asymmetry International PLC (“OAI”) in 2000 and

1100-526: The Milton Trading Estate. The Estate became a distribution and storage hub and was sold to MEPC in 1985. In 1988, the MEPC management team made the decision to support science companies, startups and Oxford University spinouts. Biotech occupier, Oxford Asymmetry International started at Milton Park in the wartime buildings and was later bought by Evotec . Today, the drug discovery and development company

1144-413: The UK’s first fully electric autonomous (AV) bus service trials in 2023. The MultiCav ’Mi-Link’ trials featured an autonomous minibus initially on a circular route around Milton Park and then on a shuttle bus service route to Didcot Parkway train/ railway station. The trials also tested an electric single decker bus on the station route. The consortium responsible for the trial comprised Milton Park

1188-488: The Vale has been understood to cover an area wider than the present-day local authority district, stretching from Buscot , in the west, to Streatley , in the east. The Vale and Downland Museum , based in Wantage , stores and presents the cultural heritage of the region. The area has been long settled as a productive fertile chalklands above well-drained clay valleys, and well-farmed with many small woodlands and hills between

1232-424: The bald summits of the Berkshire Downs , which flank it on the south. The numerous elm trees that once were a major feature of the Vale were lost to Dutch Elm Disease . To the north, a low ridge separates it from the upper Thames Valley , holding back the soft Jurassic sedimentary and Cretaceous deposits ( Greensand , Gault and Kimmeridge Clay ) behind a hard corallian limestone escarpment ridge, in what

1276-568: The city of Oxford and near the A34 dual carriageway, Milton Park is close to Didcot Parkway railway station in an area known as Science Vale UK, which also includes Culham Campus and the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus . Milton Park is located within the Golden Triangle of Oxford, Cambridge and London, and has transport links to renowned academia, research and innovation hubs, including

1320-548: The closure of British Leyland's long-established MG works at Abingdon in 1980, there is no motor industry, apart from some specialist car makers and component factories. Macdermid Autotype in Wantage remains one of the few large industrial employers in the region. The length of the Vale is traversed by the Great Western Main Line and the Cherwell Valley Line . Appleford railway station and Radley railway station are now

1364-554: The district. Previously, since the 19th century, the administrative areas had been the Municipal Borough of Abingdon , Wantage Urban District , Abingdon Rural District , Faringdon Rural District , and most of Wantage Rural District . The Vale of White Horse District Council is based in Milton Park , Milton . The council has been controlled by either Liberal Democrat or Conservative administrations since Vale of White Horse

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1408-708: The horses of travellers if they were left at the place with payment. The legend is elaborated, and the smith appears as a character, in Sir Walter Scott 's novel Kenilworth , and in Rudyard Kipling 's Puck of Pook's Hill . A grassy track represents the Ridgeway , claimed as the oldest road in Europe, perhaps five thousand years old or more. It travels along the crest of the hills, far above what would then have been marshy lowlands or forests, continuing Icknield Street , from

1452-554: The northwestern rim, is closely associated). Wantage is in a sheltered hollow at the foot of the hills, along which villages concentrate often in long strip parishes . Numerous springs, the run-off from the chalk hills were main local water sources, and an accessible water table enabled the growing of fruits, grains and vegetables. Towards the west, above Uffington , the hills reach a culminating point of 261 m (856 ft) in White Horse Hill. In its northern flank, just below

1496-953: The only stations within the Vale, although there used to be stations at Challow , Uffington , Grove (near Wantage) , Abingdon and Steventon . These all closed as part of the Beeching cuts , in the early 1960s. The nearest mainline stations are now Swindon , Oxford and Didcot Parkway . The Harwell Science and Innovation Campus is a large employer, particularly for scientists and engineers. At one time Amey plc had its head office in Sutton Courtenay , Vale of White Horse. 51°36′N 1°30′W  /  51.6°N 1.5°W  / 51.6; -1.5 Milton Park Covering nearly three million square feet of floor space across 300 acres, it comprises over 250 organisations employing thousands of people across sectors such as life sciences, energy, space and supporting technologies. Milton Park

1540-537: The parking area has been created into a wildflower meadow, designed to attract Milton Park’s resident bees. Bee House was named the Best Commercial Development at the OxPropFest Awards 2022. The Innovation Centre is a fully serviced office building with a variety of business space and service options for start-ups and small and medium-sized enterprises. Almost 80 companies are currently based at

1584-521: The past decade. Of these occupiers, 57 were identified as high-growth companies and 12 were spun out from academic institutions. Milton Park has 3,400,000 sq ft (320,000 m ) of business accommodation, and houses the Milton Park Innovation Centre, a flagship innovation centre for fast-growing science and technology businesses. The centre plans to expand to a working population of 20,000 people by 2040. Milton Park supports

1628-620: The present-day local authority district, having been described, for example, in Daniel Defoe 's 1748 travel account A Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain . There are references to the name as early as the 17th century; the Elizabethan antiquarian and historian William Camden referred to the "Vale of White Horse" in his 1610 topographical study on the British Isles. Traditionally,

1672-426: The scene of innocent Saxon boyhood adventures, before the eponymous hero is sent away to school at Rugby . Rosemary Sutcliff 's 1977 historical novel Sun Horse, Moon Horse takes place in the Vale, telling the tale of the White Horse's creation in ancient Celtic times . To the west of White Horse Hill lies a long barrow called Wayland's Smithy , said to be the home of a smith who was never seen , but who shod

1716-456: The summit, a gigantic figure of a horse is cut, consisting of deep trenches filled with crushed white chalk. This figure gives name to the hill, the range and the Vale. It is 114 m (374 ft) long and highly stylised, the neck, body and tail varying little in width. The origin of the figure is unknown. Tradition asserted it to be the monument of a victory over the Danes by King Alfred , who

1760-404: The west of it rises a bald mound named Dragon Hill , the traditional scene of St George 's victory over the dragon , the blood of which made the ground bare of grass for ever. But the name may derive from Celtic Pendragon ("dragon's head"), which was a title for a king, and may point to an early place of burial. The Vale as a whole appears at the beginning of Tom Brown's Schooldays , as

1804-552: Was born at Wantage, but the site of the Battle of Ashdown (871 CE ) has been variously located. Moreover, the figure has been dated to the Bronze Age, so it pre-dates the battle by many centuries. Many ancient remains occur in the vicinity of the Horse. On the summit of the hill there is an extensive and well-preserved circular camp, apparently used by the Romans but of much earlier origin. It

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1848-746: Was combined with the Sustainable Travel Forum set up in 2017 and aims to share best practice and raise awareness of existing green initiatives around energy use, recycling and transport. Milton Park holds the British Standards Institution (BSI) ISO 14001 certification for Environmental Management Systems (EMS). It has a zero-to-landfill waste policy, resulting in approximately 250 tonnes of mixed recycling being processed each year, reducing its environmental impact. Maintenance vehicles and tools on-site are electric-powered. The Park’s maintenance team has partnered with Happy Earth Soil,

1892-640: Was created in 1973. The council was run by the Conservative Party from 2011 until the 2019 UK local elections , at which the Liberal Democrats regained control in a landslide, after having previously held the council from 1995 to 2011. The Vale is the valley of the Ock , a stream which joins the Thames from the west at Abingdon. It is almost flat and well wooded, its green meadows and foliage contrasting richly with

1936-542: Was formerly a Ministry of Defence military depot during the First and Second World Wars, before it was auctioned in 1971 to become the Milton Trading Estate. In 1984, MEPC plc acquired Milton Park and in 1988, the management team made the decision to support science companies, startups and Oxford University spinouts. From 2013 to 2023, occupiers based at Milton Park secured 7.56% of the UK’s overall investment for life sciences. In addition to its occupiers, Milton Park features

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