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River Cherwell

The River Cherwell is a tributary of the in central England. It rises near , and flows southwards for 40 miles to meet the Thames at in .
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Photo: Rob Brewer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
  • Type: River
  • Description: tributary of the River Thames in central England
  • Also known as: “Cherwell”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Wolfson College and Lady Margaret Hall.

University
Photo: WolfsonPix, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Wolfson is a graduate college, with particular strengths in areas like global health, environmental studies, economics, and humanities.

University
Photo: Ed Webster, CC BY 2.0.
is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England, located on a bank of the River Cherwell at Norham Gardens in north Oxford and adjacent to the University Parks.

University
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is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. It was founded in 1879 as Somerville Hall, one of its first two women's colleges.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Park Town and Norham Manor.

Neighborhood
Photo: Jpbowen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a small residential area in central North Oxford, a suburb of , England. It was one of the earliest planned suburban developments in the area and most of the houses are Grade II listed.

Quarter
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The estate is a residential suburb in , . It is part of central North Oxford. To the north is with its crescents, to the east is the River Cherwell, to the south are the University Parks and to the west is Walton Manor, on the other side of Banbury Road.

Suburb
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is a historic suburb of the English city of . It consists of the streets bounded by the , , Walton Street and Walton Well Road.

River Cherwell

Latitude
51.77223° or 51° 46′ 20″ north
Longitude
-1.25134° or 1° 15′ 5″ west
Elevation
217 feet (66 metres)
Open location code
9C3WQPCX+VF
Open­Street­Map ID
way 30724655
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­water
Open­Street­Map feature
water=­river
Geo­Names ID
2653238
Wiki­data ID
Q1070474
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Belarusian to Western Panjabi—“River Cherwell” goes by many names.
  • Belarusian: “Чэруэл”
  • Cebuano: “River Cherwell”
  • Chinese: “切維爾河”
  • Chinese: “切维尔河”
  • Chinese: “查韋爾河”
  • Chinese: “查韦尔河”
  • Dutch: “Cherwell”
  • Finnish: “Cherwell”
  • Finnish: “Cherwelljoki”
  • French: “Cherwell”
  • German: “Cherwell”
  • German: “River Cherwell”
  • Greek: “Τσέργουελ”
  • Hebrew: “נהר הצ’רוול”
  • Hindi: “चारवेल नदी”
  • Indonesian: “Sungai Cherwell”
  • Japanese: “チャーウェル川”
  • Macedonian: “Чарвел”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cherwell”
  • Persian: “رودخانه چرول”
  • Polish: “Cherwell”
  • Russian: “Чаруэлл”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cherwell”
  • Slovenian: “Cherwell”
  • Spanish: “Cherwell”
  • Swedish: “River Cherwell”
  • Ukrainian: “Чарвелл”
  • Welsh: “Afon Cherwell”
  • Western Panjabi: “چرول دریا”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “River Cherwell”. Photo: Rob Brewer, CC BY-SA 2.0.