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Summertown in North Oxford is a suburb of Oxford, England. Summertown is a one-mile square residential area, north of St Giles, the boulevard leading out of Oxford's city centre. Summertown is home to several independent schools and the city's most expensive houses. [1] On both sides of Banbury Road are Summertown's popular shops.
Porters restaurant was replaced by a chain-restaurant Carluccio's, which has since closed. Little Clarendon Street is a short shopping street in northwest Oxford , England . It runs east-west between the south end of Woodstock Road opposite St Giles' Church to the east, Somerville College to the north and Walton Street to the west.
The Market Tavern (formerly the City Tavern, Bar Oz and the Roebuck public house [6]) was once located on the south side of Market Street. The Oxford University Jazz Club (now the Oxford University Jazz Society) had met there for jazz performances [7] and jam sessions. The Tavern has since been replaced by a noodle restaurant. The noodle ...
Great Clarendon Street is one of the principal thoroughfares of the Jericho district of Oxford, England, an inner suburb northwest of the centre of the city. [1] The Freud cafe-bar on Walton Street, in the former St Paul's church building, viewed from the end of Great Clarendon Street
The earliest cities (Latin: civitas) in Britain were the fortified settlements organised by the Romans as capitals of the Celtic tribes under Roman rule.The British clerics of the early Middle Ages later preserved a traditional list of the "28 Cities" (Old Welsh: cair) which was mentioned in De Excidio Britanniae [c] and Historia Brittonum.
The former City of Oxford High School for Boys building on the south side of the street was designed by T. G. Jackson and built in 1880-81. [3] In 1966, the school moved to the Southfields Grammar School site and its former building became the University of Oxford Classics Department.
The Oxford Synagogue (one of the few in England with more than one denomination of Judaism worshipping in the same house) and the Oxford Jewish Centre [13] are in Jericho. Castlemill Boatyard is a 160-year-old [clarification needed] wharf on the canal in Jericho, previously owned by British Waterways and now closed. British Waterways sold the ...
The Bear (historically associated with The Bear Inn) [1] is a pub in Oxford, England, that was founded in 1774 as The Jolly Trooper. [2] It stands on the corner of Alfred Street and Blue Boar Street, opposite Bear Lane in the centre of Oxford, just north of Christ Church, on the site of St Edward's churchyard. [3]