Culham is a small village by the river Thames near Abingdon in Oxfordshire, with more than 12 centuries of recorded history. Though small, it is known round the world through the nearby research centre which bears its name. Culham Laboratory is home to two major nuclear fusion experiments: JET (Joint European Torus), the world's largest conventional tokamak (fusion reactor), and MAST, a leading spherical tokamak. When JET was built, the European Commission set up the European School in Culham to provide an international education for the children of Euratom scientists who would come to work at JET.

Please send items of village interest for possible inclusion in the website to js@storrs.demon.co.uk (John Storrs). The background shows the bridge over the Thames at Culham.