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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.
McGovern's Hill State School opened on 11 July 1912 but was renamed Headington Hill State School later that year. It closed in 1967. [ 9 ] The school was located on the south-east corner of Gatton Clifton Road and McGovern Road ( 27°54′19″S 152°00′08″E / 27.90533°S 152.00231°E / -27.90533; 152.00231 ( Headington Hill ...
Headington's toponym is derived from the Old English Hedena's dun, meaning "Hedena's hill", when it was the site of a palace or hunting lodge of the Kings of Mercia. In a charter of 1004, Æthelred the Unready , "written at the royal ville called Headan dune", gave land in Headington to St Frideswide's Priory , which included the quarry and the ...
Headington Hill was a large freehold estate established in the 1840s. [15] The first road was cut to service these properties. In 1877, 6,000 acres (2,400 ha) were resumed from the Clifton pastoral run and offered for selection on 17 April 1877. [16] Subsequent development of small farms to the north of Clifton led to road improvements.
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.
Headington Road is the home of the Oxford Spanish Civil War memorial which is dedicated to local residents who travelled to Spain to join the International Brigades to fight against fascist forces backed by Hitler and Mussolini during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939).
The West Gallery was taken down in 1876. The refurbishments were the work of Edward George Bruton (1826-1899), an Oxford-based architect who specialised in ecclesiastical commissions in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire and were largely paid for by members of the wealthy Morrell brewing family [15] of Headington Hill Hall. [16]
View across South Park South Park in the snow. South Park is a park on Headington Hill in east Oxford, England. [1] It is the largest park within Oxford city limits. A good view of the city centre with its historic spires and towers of Oxford University can be obtained at the park's highest point, a favourite location for photographers.