Headington and Marston in Wikipedia
Some of the links below are “stubs”, waiting for local people to complete their entries. And If you search http://en.wikipedia.org and what you want isn’t there, why not create it?
Main areas of Headington & Marston
Local streets, buildings, and features in Wikipedia
- Cheney School
- Cheney Student Village
- Cotuit Hall
- Headington Hill
- Headington Hill Hall
- Headington Road
- Headington School
- Headington Shark (also in the Latin Wikipedia as Volpes marina Hedintonis)
- John Radcliffe Hospital
- The Kilns, Risinghurst
- Manor Ground
- Marston Ferry Road
- Marston Road
- Oxford Brookes University
- Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre
- Ruskin College
- Rye St Antony School
- Warneford Hospital
- Warneford Meadow
Wikipedia Commons
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People in Wikipedia
These are just some of the Wikipedia entries on Headington or Marston people:
- Brian Aldiss (who still lives in Old Headington)
- Isaiah Berlin (Headington House, Old High Street)
- Elizabeth Bowen (Waldencote, The Croft)
- Joy Davidman (10 Old High Street; then The Kilns)
- E. R. Dodds (Cromwell House, 17 Mill Lane, Marston)
- Geoffrey Elton, Baron Elton of Headington (40 Osler Road)
- Howard Florey, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston (4 Elsfield Road, Marston)
- Ethelred the Unready (in a palace somewhere in Headington)
- Dalziel Hammick (62 Old Road)
- Eric Hebborn (his parents were shopkeepers first at 67, and then 74 Lime Walk)
- Elizabeth Jennings (Unity House, 8 St Andrew’s Lane)
- Orlando Jewitt (Church House, 14 St Andrew’s Road)
- John Johnson (29 Barton Lane)
- Anthony Kenny (who still lives in Old Headington)
- William Kimber (Old Road, Lime Walk, then Merryville at 42 St Anne’s Road)
- C. S. Lewis (14 Holyoake Road, then the Kilns in Risinghurst)
- David Marquand (who still lives in Old Headington)
- William Markby (The Pullens, Pullens Lane)
- Robert Maxwell (Headington Hill Hall)
- William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield (near Brasenose Farmhouse, as a child)
- Michael Sadler (The Rookery)
- Henry Stephen (his widow lived at 8 Lewis Close and gave land for nature reserve)
- J. R. R. Tolkien (76 Sandfield Road)
- Barbara Woodhouse (Sandfield Cottage, on site of Horwood Close)
