Oxford Circle
Oxford Circle is a neighborhood in the lower Northeast section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Its namesake is the much used traffic circle at Roosevelt Boulevard and Oxford Avenue.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Neighborhood with 48,900 residents
- Description: human settlement in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Also known as: “Oxford Circle, Philadelphia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Har Nebo Cemetery and Philadelphia Charter School for Arts and Sciences.
Har Nebo Cemetery
Cemetery
Photo: David King, CC BY 2.0.
Har Nebo Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in the Oxford Circle neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Established in 1890, it is the oldest privately owned Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia.
Philadelphia Charter School for Arts and Sciences
School
The Philadelphia Charter School for Arts and Sciences at H.R. Edmunds is a charter school that is located in the Northwood neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Friends Hospital
Hospital
Friends Hospital is a psychiatric hospital located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1813 by Quakers as The Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason, the institution was later renamed the Frankford Asylum for the Insane.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Frankford and Northwood.
Frankford
Neighborhood
Frankford is a neighborhood in the Northeast section of Philadelphia situated about six miles northeast of Center City. Although its borders are vaguely defined, the neighborhood is bounded roughly by the original course of Frankford Creek on the south…
Northwood
Neighborhood
Northwood, an area of the Frankford section of Philadelphia, is bounded on the north by Roosevelt Boulevard, on the northeast by Cheltenham Avenue, on the west by Oakland Cemetery and Greenwood Cemetery, Juniata Park and Frankford Creek, and on the southeast by Frankford Avenue.
Lawncrest
Neighborhood
Lawncrest is a neighborhood in the Near Northeast Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The name is an amalgam of Lawndale and Crescentville, the two primary communities that make up the neighborhood.
Oxford Circle
- Category: locality
- Location: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.03346° or 40° 2′ 1″ northLongitude
-75.08512° or 75° 5′ 6″ westPopulation
48,900Elevation
118 feet (36 metres)Open location code
87G62WM7+9XOpenStreetMap ID
node 157605001OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhoodGeoNames ID
5204783Wikidata ID
Q7115273
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Turkish—“Oxford Circle” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Oxford Circle”
- Turkish: “Oxford Circle”
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