Headington
Headington is an eastern suburb of Oxford, in the county of Oxfordshire, England. It is at the top of Headington Hill overlooking the city in the Thames valley below, and bordering Marston to the north-west, Cowley to the south, and Barton and Risinghurst to the east.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb
- Description: suburb of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Headington, Oxfordshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Headington Shark and Bury Knowle Park.
Headington Shark
Work of art
Photo: ceridwen, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Headington Shark is a rooftop sculpture located at 2 New High Street, Headington, Oxford, England, depicting a large shark embedded head-first in the roof of a house.
John Radcliffe Hospital
Hospital
Photo: ceridwen, CC BY-SA 2.0.
John Radcliffe Hospital is a large tertiary teaching hospital in Oxford, England. It is a part of the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and is named after John Radcliffe, an 18th-century physician and Oxford University graduate, who endowed the Radcliffe Infirmary, the main hospital for Oxford from 1770 until 2007.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Headington Hill and Barton.
Headington Hill
Neighborhood
Photo: BrainVE, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Headington Hill is a hill in the east of Oxford, England, in the suburb of Headington. The Headington Road goes up the hill leading out of the city. There are good views of the spires of Oxford from the hill, especially from the top of South Park.
Barton
Suburb
Photo: David Hawgood, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Barton is a village and suburb of Oxford, in Oxfordshire, England. It is 3 miles east of the centre of Oxford, just outside the Oxford Ring Road. It is near to Headington, Risinghurst and Marston.
Northway
Suburb
Photo: Des Blenkinsopp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Northway is a suburb in northeast Oxford, England, just inside the Oxford ring road. It is near Marston and the John Radcliffe Hospital. It mainly consists of social housing built by Oxford City Council in the 1950s, though many houses and apartments are now in private ownership.
Headington
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.76017° or 51° 45′ 37″ northLongitude
-1.21093° or 1° 12′ 39″ westElevation
318 feet (97 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB HDGOpen location code
9C3WQQ6Q+3JOpenStreetMap ID
node 14190971OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
2647239Wikidata ID
Q3090863
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Welsh—“Headington” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Հեդինգթոն”
- Catalan: “Headington”
- Chinese: “黑丁頓”
- Chinese: “黑丁頓區”
- Chinese: “黑丁顿”
- Dutch: “Headington”
- French: “Headington”
- German: “Headington”
- Hebrew: “הדינגטון”
- Irish: “Headington”
- Japanese: “ヘディントン”
- Persian: “هدینگتون”
- Polish: “Headington”
- Portuguese: “Headington”
- Russian: “Хедингтон”
- Slovenian: “Headington”
- Swedish: “Headington”
- Welsh: “Headington”
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