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Headington was an ancient parish in the Bullingdon Hundred of Oxfordshire. [6] In 1868, an area on the western edge of the parish around Headington Hill was included in the Oxford constituency, and in 1889 the same area was added to the city and municipal borough of Oxford. [7]
Headington Quarry is a suburb and civil parish of Oxford, England. Once a separate village built on the site of a former limestone quarry, it is now fully integrated into the city of Oxford and lies approximately 3 miles east of the city centre, just inside the Oxford Ring Road. It is near to Headington, Wood Farm, Risinghurst, and Barton.
A view up Headington Hill along Headington Road, with an Oxford Park&Ride bus. Headington Hill section on Headington Community website; Located on Headington Road is the Oxford Spanish Civil War memorial, dedicated to Oxford residents who joined the International Brigades during the Oxford Spanish Civil War memorial and died fighting against fascist forces backed by Hitler and Mussolini.
Its foundation stone was laid on 19 June 1848 by Samuel Wilberforce, the son of William Wilberforce and then Bishop of Oxford, who consecrated the building on completion. [1] The Lewis brothers, C. S. Lewis and Warren Lewis, began attending here in 1930 and remained active in this church until their deaths, C. S. Lewis in 1963 and W. H. Lewis ...
Headington stone was traditionally used for a number of the older Oxford University college buildings. In 1396, stone from quarrying in Headington was used to build the bell-tower for New College. It was also used for Oxford's city walls. Headington stone was used in the 1520s by Cardinal Wolsey to build his Cardinal College, now known as ...
In 1953, James Morrell III sold Headington Hill Hall to Oxford City Council. It continued to be used as a rehabilitation centre until 1958. [5] Subsequently, the publisher Robert Maxwell (1923–1991), founder of Pergamon Press, took a lease of the building rented from the Council for 32 years as a residence and offices.
St Andrew's Church, Headington [1] is a Church of England [2] parish church in the village of Old Headington, Oxfordshire, England, now absorbed as part of the suburb of Headington in the city of Oxford. The church building is located in St Andrew's Road. [3] It is a Grade II* listed building.
Sydney Howard Vines FRS (1849–1934), the Sherardian Chair of Botany at the University of Oxford and President of the Linnean Society of London, first owner of the house. The Vines is a house on Pullens Lane, Headington, a suburb in east Oxford, England. It was the first house to be built on the west side of the lane, on land that was ...