HEADINGTON, OXFORD

Libraries in the Headington area

Bury Knowle House

Headington Library, Bury Knowle Park:
(official Oxfordshire County Council website)

Friends of Bury Knowle Park

History of Bury Knowle House

Old Marston Library

Oxfordshire County Council Library Service

Catalogue of Oxfordshire County Council Libraries
(and renew your books: necessary to get a pin number from the library first)

www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/doitonline
Free access to online Who's Who, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography,
Oxford English Dictionary, etc. via your Oxfordshire library card number

Oxford Brookes Library is open to external readers

Health Care Libraries: open to medics

The internet can be viewed free of charge in all Oxfordshire public libraries, so please tell your friends who are not online. It is usually advisable to book a session: telephone Headington Library at 01865 762867


"If a person could not walk from Headington or Cowley to the Central Library to get a book, he did not deserve one" (reported remark of committee member, c.1930, on the proposal to open branch libraries in Oxford)

 

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