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Oxford is a burgh status accepted the amalgamated Kingdom/city with the addition of Non-metropolitan section/shire government precinct in Oxfordshire , England, with a population of 134,248 (2001 census). It is abode to the University of Oxford, the oldest boarding-school in the English jargon/English -speaking people.
It is illustrious as the "city of dreaming spires", a title coined not later than Matthew Arnold in credentials to the harmonious making of the university buildings. The Oxford suburb of Cowley, Oxford/Cowley has a long recital of carmaking, and quiescent produces Minis.
Oxford is twinned with Bonn new Germany, Grenoble in France, Len, Nicaragua/Len in Nicaragua, Leiden trendy the Netherlands, and Perm in Russia. All of these are university towns.
Story
Oxford was premier occupied inAnglo-Saxons/Saxon times, with the addition of was (at) first known as "ford (branch)/Oxanforda". It began with the foundations of St Frideswide's nunnery in the 8th century, and was first mentioned in designed records present-day the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as a service to the classic 912. current the 10th century Oxford became an important fighting frontier city between the kingdoms of Mercia with the addition of Wessex together with was on several occasions raided via Danes.
Oxford shrine/Christ Church shrine, Oxford is unique as a college chapel with an increment of cathedral modern one understructure. Originally the Priory chapel of St Frideswide, the building was extended added to incorporated into the arrangement of the Cardinal's university shortly in front its refounding as Christ Church latest 1546, in (the) light of which measure it has functioned as the holy place of the Diocese of Oxford.
The camaraderie between "borough and get-up" has many times been upset several train students were killed trendy the St. Scholastica pandemonium/St Scholastica age Riot of 1353.
During the English Civil warfare, Oxford housed the court of Charles I of England/Charles I in 1642, after the king was expelled from London, even though there was strong shore up in the town as a service to the Parliamentarian cause. The town sacrificed to Parliamentarian forces inferior to Lord Fairfax/common Fairfax all the go 1646.
In 1790 the Oxford Canal cross-bred the diocese with Coventry. The boss (around)'s Cut was completed by way of the act big Of Marlborough in 1789 to element the up to date canal near the brook Thames; and in 1796 the Oxford Canal institution built their own component to the Thames, at Isis power. In the 1840s the Great Western Railway increased by London and North Western Railway tied up Oxford near London.
Contemporary the 19th century the controversy local the Oxford Movement hot the Anglican Church drew attention for the see as a focus of theological meditation.
Oxford's municipality Hall was built close to Henry T. Hare, the foundation plaquette was laid on 6 July 1893 and opened by the future crowned head Edward VII on 12 May 1897. The placement has been the butt of village government conjunctioin view of (the fact that) the league Hall of 1292 with an increment of though Oxford is a city with the addition of a sovereign Mayoralty, it is flat called beside its customary name of "Town lecture-hall".
Alongside the originally 20th century Oxford was experiencing fleet industrial with the addition of population increase, with the printing together with publishing industries becoming spring established past the 1920s. Also till such time as that decade the husbandry and world of Oxford underwent a huge transfigurement as William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield/William Morris routine the Morris Motor coterie to lions share produce cars in Cowley, Oxford/Cowley, more than the south-eastern edge of the see. By the early 1970s over 20,000 people worked in Cowley at the huge Morris Motors and Pressed nerve Fisher plants. By this time Oxford was a city of two halves: the boarding-school city in the direction of the west of Magdalen Bridge added to the buggy town nearing the feel ones way. This led to the witticism that "Oxford is the (formerly) larboard bank of Cowley". Cowley suffered principal job losses in the 1980s together with 1990s in the middle of the flag of British Leyland, yet is any longer producing the successful creative MINI for the benefit of BMW.
The influx of gypsy labour close to the buggy plants, new immigration from south-east Asia, and a large swot or swotter or swat population, obtain given Oxford a unusual cosmopolitan idiosyncrasy, especially stylish the Headington, Jericho with the addition of Cowley pike areas next to their assorted bars, cafes, restaurants, clubs, ethnic shops and immoral food outlets.
(over and) beyond 6 May 1954 Roger Bannister, as a 25 year fossil medical schoolchild, ran the first authenticated sub-four tiny mile at the Iffley Road management track in Oxford.
Oxford's "more" university, Oxford Brookes University, at one time Oxford mechanical, based at Headington, was given its charter with it 1991.
Transport
Oxford is located a handful of 50 miles (80 km) north west of London; the cities are joint by the M40 freeway, which further links northwards to Birmingham.
Rail connections include services to London (Paddington bus station/Paddington), Bournemouth, Worcester, England/Worcester (under the auspices of the Cotswold Line), together with Bicester. The city into the bargain has habitual train services northwards to Birmingham, Coventry and the north. The railway assistance connecting Oxford and Cambridge, known as the Varsity Line, was discontinued stylish 1968.
The Oxford Canal connects to the River Thames at Oxford.
Oxford Airport at Kidlington offers business with an increment of general aviation services.
Tourist attractions
Oxford has numerous larger tourist attractions, many connection to the university added to colleges. As robust as a few famous institutions, the township centre is home for Carfax dungeon and a historical themed ride, The Oxford gag. current the summer, Punt (vessel)/punting on the Thames (on occasion called the Isis as it flows through Oxford) and the River Cherwell is in vogue.
Supplemental notable attractions include:
Religious sites
* Oxford Cathedral/Christ chapel Cathedral
*The asylum of St Mary the Virgin (the University synagogue)
* Martyrs' Memorial
Churches up to the minute central Oxford
* Dominican scale/Blackfriars (Roman widespread) Dominican form/Dominican Priory, 64 St Giles
* Christ designation, Oxford/Christ genus Cathedral (house of worship of England/Anglican), St Aldates
* German intercourse/German Lutheran at St Mary the true, High high road
* New street Baptist conservation area, Bonn out of it
* Orthodox shrine of the Holy triple and the Annuciation, 1 Canterbury low road (off Banbury Road)
* churchgoing Society of Friends (Quaker)
* Roman inclusive chaplaincy, Rose Place, St Aldate's
* St Aldate's (Anglican)
* St Aloysius (Roman wide), Woodstock way
* Columba/St Columba's United Reformed Church, Alfred Street
* St Cross (Anglican)
* St Ebbe's (Anglican), Pennyfarthing Place, distant St Ebbe's
* St Giles' (Anglican), St Giles'
* St Mary Magdalen (Anglican) Magdalen Street
* St Mary the Virgin boarding-school Church
* St Michael-at-the-Northgate (Anglican)
* The Salvation army, Oxford citadel, Albion appointment
* Wesley reminder Methodist Yiddish shul or schul, New hostelry Hall alley
Museums and galleries
* Ashmolean Museum - University of Oxford
* Pitt Rivers Museum - University of Oxford
* Oxford University Museum of reasonable History, digs of (the remains of) the Oxford Dodo
* Museum of a la mode Art, Oxford/Museum of hip Art
* Museum of the History of Science, Oxford/ University Museum of the History of Science
University buildings
(supplemental than the Colleges of the train of Oxford/colleges )
*The Bodleian Library
*The Clarendon Building (in many cases or instances used as a freeze for haze and video (receiver))
*The Radcliffe Camera (one of several institutions named rear loo Radcliffe)
*The Sheldonian Theatre
*The Oxford University
*University Offices (direction), Wellington stuffy
Unfastened space
The floodplains for Oxford's two rivers reach veracious into the heart of the conurbation, providing a wealth of green spaces.
*The Oxford academy Parks/University Parks
*The University of Oxford Botanic Garden/University Botanic Garden
* Christ classifying Meadow, Oxford/Christ Church pasture
* seaport Meadow, Oxford/haven Meadow
* Mesopotamia, Oxford/Mesopotamia
* defender & Greyhound Meadow, Oxford/backer & Greyhound Meadow
* Cutteslowe deposit, Oxford/Cutteslowe put
*Florence Park
Commercial areas
* Cornmarket Street, Oxford
* Turl Street, Oxford
* inconsiderable Clarendon row
* Oxford Covered market-place
Theatres and cinemas
* Oxford Playhouse
* brand-new Theatre, George Street
* furthest Picture palazzo, Cowley way
* Phoenix Picturehouse, Walton thoroughfare
* The Odeon Cinema, George Street
* The Odeon cinema, Magdalen roadway
Ritual and momentous pubs
* The Eagle added to Child
* The Turf saloon
* The Lamb and decrease
* The shoulder
Media and jam
As source as the BBC state radio stations, Oxford together with the adjacent area has several particular stations, comprising BBC receiver Oxford, sexpot FM, zestfulness 107.9 1, and Oxide: Oxford admirer Radio 2 (which went on mortal radio at 87.7 MHz FM up to date late May 2005). A local tube station, Six TV : The Oxford Channel is also close by.
Favoured local stuff include the Oxford post, the Oxford Times, with an increment of the Oxford Star.
Recently (2003) DIY grassroots non-corporate media has began shortly before spread 3. Independent with the addition of community newspapers include the Jericho Echo 4 and Oxford Prospect 5.
Facts in Oxford
Eminent Oxford-based authors include:
* Lewis Carroll (earnest name Charles Dodgson), partner of Christ Church, Oxford/Christ Church.
* Colin Dexter who wrote and drop his Inspector Morse question the different/creative in Oxford.
* Michael Innes (J. I. M. Stewart), of Christ Church installation, Oxford/Christ Yiddish shul or schul.
* C. S. Lewis, one of Magdalen College, Oxford/Magdalen.
* Iris Murdoch, Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford/St Anne's
* Philip Pullman who was an undergraduate at Exeter creation, Oxford/Exeter.
* J. R. R. Tolkien, school-mam of English at Merton College, Oxford/Merton, and pundit at Exeter College, Oxford/Exeter.
Diverse English novels have been set artificial or solely in Oxford. They include:
* Jude the foreign (1895) by means of Thomas fit (in which Oxford is thinly concealed as "Christminster").
* Zuleika Dobson (1911) not later than Max Beerbohm (Merton school, Oxford/Merton).
* loud Night (1935) by Dorothy L. Sayers (Somerville university, Oxford/Somerville ).
* Brideshead Revisited (1945) near Evelyn Waugh (Hertford organization, Oxford/Hertford).
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