Welcome to Fitzharry’s Manor Estate
Celebrating our 75th Anniversary
We are a thriving community in the heart of Abingdon-on-Thames. The estate was originally built to house the families of an international group of scientists who took forward peacetime nuclear research.
What’s New
Some of 2024’s Advent windows
Carol singing on Nuneham Square, December 2024
A few photographs of the 2024 Estate Summer Party on the Manor Green
Photographs of the estate in 1951, taken for the Ministry of Supply
The entrance to Fitzharry’s Road seen from Boxhill Walk with numbers 2 and 4 Fitzharry’s Road in the foreground
The view looking across Letcombe Avenue towards numbers 6 and 8
Numbers 1-6 Stanford Drive
The view looking north east along Letcombe Avenue with the estate depot buildings in the right foreground
The view along Fitzharry’s Road with the entrance to Letcombe Avenue visible to the right beyond numbers and 18 and 20 Fitzharry’s Road
The view across Letcombe Avenue looking towards the entrance to Nuneham Square and 5 Letcombe Avenue
Priscilla Nicholson, who grew up at 18 Fitzharrys Road, has sent some evocative photos of life on the estate in the 1960s and 70s
