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The College of All Souls of the Faithful Departed, of Oxford, was founded by Henry VI and Henry Chichele (fellow of New College and Archbishop of Canterbury), on 20 May...
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This is the oldest museum in Britain; in fact when it was first opened in 1683 the term ‘museum’ was hardly in common usage. The institution is owned by...
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John de Balliol founded the college in 1283 under the guidance of the Bishop of Durham. The institution has a long history of extremely political active students and has...
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The Bate Collection celebrates the history of the western musical tradition from medieval times to the modern day. The museum houses a large collection of instruments from around the...
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Blackfriars College is unique within the University of Oxford as it is the only specialist Theological and Philosophical school. Friars began a Dominican academic community in 1221 on the...
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This famous bookstore on Broad Street was founded by Benjamin Blackwell in 1879. From the outside the shop looks fairly small, but behind the facade is the huge Norrington Room...
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Set in 2,100 acres of parkland landscaped by Capability Brown, Blenheim Palace is surrounded by sweeping lawns and formal gardens. The State Rooms are graced with priceless portraits, exquisite porcelain...
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The Bodleian Library is not one library but many, housed in buildings spread all over Oxford. The historic core is around Radcliffe Square, with the oldest parts being the magnificent...
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Brasenose College is in the heart of Oxford next to the Radcliffe Camera. Its name is said to be the oddest of all the colleges and is thought to...
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The Bridge of Sighs in Oxford is almost as famous a landmark as its Italian counterpart. The bridge was built in 1913 and is named after the famous Venice...
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Bury Knowle Park in Oxford was first established in 1930 as a public park when Bury Knowle House was purchased by Oxford City Council for its owner Henry Beaufoy in...
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The Carfax Tower is the remains of the church of St Martin which was demolished in 1896 in order to widen the road and improve traffic flow. The tower...
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People have been visiting this medieval church for over 800 years, ever since local pilgrims came here to pray at the shrine of St. Frideswide, the patron saint of Oxford....
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Christ Church College has an interesting history. It was initially founded by Cardinal Wolsey in the 16th Century and was re-founded later in the century by Henry VIII....
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This open area of meadowland follows the river Cherwell along the back of Christ Church College. Intersected by paths the meadows have for centuries been a magnet for the...
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Corpus Christi College is one of the smaller colleges of Oxford University and has the advantage of overlooking meadows but being in the city centre. The college’s buildings mainly...
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Without a doubt this pub is top of the list for a great deal of literary pilgrims to Oxford. Famed as the meeting place of the ‘Inklings’, a group...
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Oxford University’s impressive Examination Schools building was designed by Sir Thomas Jackson and constructed between 1876 and 1882. Jackson had been inspired by the Jacobean architecture of Kirby Hall in...
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Still situated in its original location, Exeter College was founded in 1314 by Walter de Stapeldon of Devon, the Bishop of Exeter. The college was originally intended for the...
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Green College is one of the graduate constituent colleges at the University of Oxford. At the centre of the college is the Radcliffe Observatory, a late eighteenth Century Grade...
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Originally run by Presbyterians, the college began life as Manchester Academy in 1786. The college was one of the few remaining dissenting academies that provided religious nonconformists with education....
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The Headington Shark is one of Oxford’s more bizarre tourist attractions. Created by the sculptor John Buckley, the fibreglass shark is 25 feet long and weighs four hundred weight....
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Originally founded as Hart Hall by Elias de Hertford in 1282. Many of the great minds of the English Renaissance studied at what would eventually become Hertford College including...
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Jesus College was founded in 1571 by eight commissioners, of whom Hugh Price is often credited as the main force, and received its Royal Charter from Elizabeth I. A...
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The Victorians founded Keble College, most notably Edward Pusey, in 1870. The college is named after Pusey’s friend and colleague John Keble who was a fellow member of the...
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Lady Margaret Hall, the first women’s college in Oxford, was founded in 1878 by Elizabeth Wordsworth, a great-niece of the poet William Wordsworth. It was named for Lady Margaret Beaufort,...
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This museum covers the history of the Boy Scout movement in Oxfordshire. The movement has a long and illustrious story to be told across the nation, and was led...
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Lincoln College is one of the oldest academic institutions in the world and is situated in the heart of Oxford’s historic centre. It has a medieval hall, a 17th...
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A trip to Oxford would not be complete without trying out the traditional activity of punting down the River Cherwell. The Magdalen Bridge Boathouse is conveniently situated at the...
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Magdalen College was founded in 1448 by William of Waynflete and was one of the first colleges to teach science. The impressive buildings of the college are situated next...
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The college was originally founded (under the name of Spring Hill College) in Birmingham, as a college for Nonconformist students, who could not at that time be admitted to Oxford...
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Martyrs’ Memorial was built to commemorate three churchmen - Thomas Cranmer, Nicholas Ridley and Hugh Latimer - who were burnt at the stake because of their Protestant beliefs during the...
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Unlike many of the colleges of Oxford University, Merton College is free to visitors. As one of the three colleges that were founded in the 13th Century, Merton College...
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Merton College Chapel was built in the 13th Century and still possesses windows that contain the original glass from the period. Other windows contain stained glass from the 15th...
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Modern Art is the new name for the Oxford Museum of Modern Art, a gallery that has been open since 1965 and in that time has gained a reputation for...
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The Oxford University Museum of Natural History houses the University’s scientific collections of zoological, entomological, geological, palaeontological and mineralogical specimens, accumulated in the course of the last three centuries....
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The Museum of Oxford is owned by the city council and acts as an excellent starting point to get to know the colourful and fascinating history of Oxford and it’s...
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New College is one of the University of Oxford’s largest colleges and was the first college to be designed around a quadrangle. The college has an interesting history as...
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The Old County Hall building in the centre of Oxford is apparently often mistaken by tourists as a castle but was actually built in the 19th Century in a Norman...
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The Old Fire Station Theatre is a studio theatre situated on George Street in the centre of Oxford. Officially the studio theatre to New Theatre Oxford, it runs as its...
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Oriel College is in the centre of Oxford and is the fifth oldest college in the university. While none of the original buildings remain, the college’s architecture is of...
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Oxford Castle was founded after the Norman invasion and first became a prison in the 13th Century although the main buildings date from the 1770s. The prison closed in 1996...
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The indoor market in Oxford high street has a long and interesting history. Designed by architect John Gwynn, creator of Magdalen Bridge, the market opened its doors for the...
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The Oratory in Oxford wasn’t actually established until 1993 but the Jesuits have served the church and surrounding buildings since the 1870’s and more recently under the see of the...
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Oxford Playhouse has a reputation as one of Britain’s leading theatres and has done since its foundation in 1920. The theatre has strong links with the University and has...
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The Oxford Union is the most famous debating society in he world. Housed in an architectural masterpiece at the very heart of the city the union hosts debates and...
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The Health Archives for the county of Oxfordshire were originally established simply as an administrative tool for the local NHS to be able to check on what they were doing...
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The Oxfordshire Record Office is home to a vast amount of administrative, political and social records that are associated with hundreds of years of history in the country. The...
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The Oxfordshire Studies Centre was established in order to bring together a wealth of information and documents that have been collated from hundreds of years of history in this county....
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Founded in 1624, Pembroke College is concentrated in its traditional site in the centre of Oxford but it has a fine new building on the Thames, as well as its...
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This is one of many museums owned by the University of Oxford based in the centre of the city. The permanent displays in the museum centre around ethnographic and...
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The Queen’s College is one of Oxford University’s oldest colleges and was founded in 1341. The college was named in honour of Edward III’s wife, Philippa. In the...
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Today, the Radcliffe Camera is part of the Bodleian Library and is one of Oxford’s most recognisable buildings. The iconic circular structure was built by James Gibbs with a...
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The Saxon Tower of St Michael at the North Gate is nearly 1000 years old and is Oxford’s oldest building. Visitors who pay to go inside the tower can...
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The Sheldonian Theatre was designed by Christopher Wren and was built between 1664 and 1668. Its main purpose is to provide the University of Oxford with a place for...
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Somerville is a college for women and men. It was founded (as Somerville Hall) in 1879 to provide an opportunity for women, who at that date were excluded from membership...
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St Antony’s College was founded using money donated by a French merchant Antonin Besse of Aden in 1952. It is one of the Universities seven graduate only colleges and...
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The rather quaint Church of St Cross is situated next to Holywell Manor to the northeast of the city centre. Historians believe there was a church on this site as...
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St Edmund Hall was one of Oxford’s ancient Aularian houses which were the first halls before the establishment of the University’s colleges and is the only Medieval hall left in...
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St John’s College was founded in 1555 as a counter reformation platform. Thomas White, an English Catholic helped found the college and notable Catholic martyr Edmund Campion attended the...
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The ecclesiastical community at St Aldates dates back to the twelfth Century when the first parts of this central Oxford church were constructed. The original tower was built in...
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In 1878 the Association for the Education of Women in Oxford was founded, and it is at this time that the college finds its earliest roots. The college itself...
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One of the newer colleges of Oxford, St. Peter’s wasn’t founded until 1929, the vision of Francis James Chavasse, Bishop of Liverpool. His plan was to create a college...
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Sir Thomas Pope established Trinity College in 1555 on the site of the earlier Durham College, which had been founded by Benedictine monks in the 13th century. Trinity College boasts...
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St. Mary the Virgin, on High Street, holds a special place in the history of Oxford University. It is one of the oldest University buildings in the world and it...
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As the oldest college of Oxford University, University College is steeped in history and tradition. The college is famous for having expelled the rebellious poet Shelley in 1811 and...
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The University Parks were first opened to the public in 1854. The vast expanse of 70 acres of land on the west side of the river Cherwell was developed...
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Founded by wealthy Somerset landowners Nicholas and Dorothy Wadham, this college became active in 1610. Although Wadham is one of the youngest of Oxford’s ‘historic colleges’ the institution contains...
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Oxford’s Westgate Shopping Centre is in the centre of the city and offers shoppers the option of escaping the traffic and tourists of the main streets by providing a whole...
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Although Wycliffe Hall has enjoyed a close relationship with the University of Oxford since its foundation in 1877, the institution only became an official Permanent Private Hall of the university...
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