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  2. South Park, Oxford - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Headington Hill Park - Wikipedia

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    Headington Hill Park is located between the Marston Road and London Road. St Clement's links the park with central Oxford. On the other side of London Road is South Park, also owned by the Morrell family until 1939. Headington Hill Park is connected to South Park via a high-level wrought-iron footbridge over the main London Road up Headington ...

  4. Lye Valley - Wikipedia

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    Lye Valley is a 2.3-hectare (5.7-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Headington, a suburb of Oxford in Oxfordshire. [1] [2] It is part of the 4.5-hectare (11-acre) Lye Valley Local Nature Reserve, which is owned and managed by Oxford City Council.

  5. Headington Hill - Wikipedia

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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.

  6. Headington - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Headington Hill, Queensland - Wikipedia

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    The Stables and windmill at Headington Hill, 1897. The locality was probably named after a large freehold estate called Headington Hill established by George Henry Davenport (1831–1881). [2] The original Headington Hill is to the north-east of Oxford, England. Davenport's father, George Francis Davenport, would have known it well, as he was ...

  8. Rock Edge - Wikipedia

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    Rock Edge is a 1.7-hectare (4.2-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Oxford in Oxfordshire. [1] [2] It is a Geological Conservation Review site [3] and a Local Nature Reserve [4] [5]

  9. Warneford Meadow - Wikipedia

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    Warneford Meadow is an area of 20 acres (8.1 ha) of natural grassland immediately south-east of the Warneford Hospital, in Headington, east Oxford, England. The Warneford Meadow is a wild space within urban Oxford. The area has been used by local residents as a public space for recreation for over 50 years. [1]