OXFORD HISTORY

 
 

Oxford History


The High
The High

Cornmarket
Cornmarket

Broad Street
Broad Street

St Giles
St Giles

George Street
George Street

Holywell Street
Holywell and Longwall

Street furniture

History on the streets of Oxford

Oxford inscriptions, parish marks, wayside stones, telephone kiosks, war memorials, and postboxes, and its street names and numbers

City Wall

Oxford’s Medieval City Wall

Follow the city wall from the Castle to the North Gate (via George Street), then to the East Gate (via Broad Street, the Turf Tavern, and New College), ending at the West Gate

Inscription on wall in St Clement's
Inscription on wall in St Clement’s

Headington and Marston

A large section, including history of Headington’s pubs, schools, shops, and large houses, with reminiscences and a section on well-known Headington people of the past:

A smaller section containing old descriptions of Marston, a history of its listed buildings, and some of its famous people:

First World War dead: biographies

Oxford people

  • Mayors of Oxford
    A brief biography of every Mayor of Oxford from the thirteenth century to 1962, and a list of all Lord Mayors from 1962 to the present
  • Lists of Oxford people
    Oxford people from the Window Tax of 1696 to Gardner’s Directory of 1852, including the Lords Lieutenant of Oxfordshire to the present day
  • Some Oxford medical men, 1621–1850
    Lists of Oxford’s medical men up to the mid-nineteenth century, with some full biographies: Regius Professors of Medicine, Physicians, Surgeons, Apothecaries, and Dentists

Oxford: Small sections

Oxfordshire

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Last updated: 5 December, 2011