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In the centre of Headington are a number of shops, pubs, cafés, restaurants, and other services. The area also includes the main campus of Oxford Brookes University, Ruskin College (which moved in its entirety from central Oxford to its Headington site in 2012), and the city's main hospitals, including the John Radcliffe, Nuffield and Churchill.
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.
Halfway along on the north side is an entrance to the Clarendon Centre, a shopping centre. At the western end is Bonn Square, named after the German city of Bonn with which Oxford is twinned, and the Westgate Oxford shopping centre, where the old city gate to the west used to be located. New Inn Hall Street leads north from near here.
Two colourful Cowley Road shops A scene from Cowley Road Carnival Saints Mary and John parish church, built in 1883 [1] Cowley Road Methodist Church, built in 1903 [2]. Cowley Road is an arterial road in the city of Oxford, England, running southeast from near the city centre at The Plain near Magdalen Bridge, through the inner city area of East Oxford, and towards the industrial suburb of Cowley.
Between them is the Royal Oxford Hotel. [1] To the south, Hollybush Row and then Oxpens Road act as an inner ring road leading to Abingdon Road, the main arterial road south out of the city. On the corner with Hollybush Row is the old Frank Cooper's jam factory, now used as office space for Nuffield College and a restaurant.
Oxford University Press (Other than the colleges) The Bodleian Library; The Clarendon Building (often used as a set for film and television) The Radcliffe Camera (one of several institutions named after John Radcliffe) The Sheldonian Theatre; The Oxford University Press
The developer is the Westgate Oxford Alliance, a joint venture between the Crown Estate and Land Securities Group Plc. [13] [14] The new centre has almost 800,000 square feet (74,000 m 2) of retail, restaurant and leisure space including a new John Lewis, a rooftop dining terrace with views across Oxford's skyline, and a five screen Curzon ...
From 1889 to 1974 the city of Oxford was a county borough, independent from the county council. [25] Oxford City Council meets at the Town Hall on the street called St Aldate's in the city centre. The current building was completed in 1897, on a site which had been occupied by Oxford's guildhall since the 13th century. [26]