Oxford Castle
Oxford Castle is a large, partly ruined medieval castle on the western side of central Oxford in Oxfordshire, England. Most of the original moated, wooden motte and bailey castle was replaced in stone in the late 12th or early 13th century and the castle played an important role in the conflict of the Anarchy.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Castle
- Description: castle in Oxford incorporated into a now closed prison
- Also known as: “Oxford Castle & Prison”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Worcester College and Balliol College.
Worcester College
University
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Worcester College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. The college was founded in 1714 by the benefaction of Sir Thomas Cookes, 2nd Baronet of Norgrove, Worcestershire, whose coat of arms was adopted by the college. Worcester College is situated 1,000 feet northwest of Oxford Castle.
Balliol College
University
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Balliol College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford, England. Founded in 1263 by nobleman John I de Balliol, it has a claim to be the oldest college in Oxford and the English-speaking world. Balliol College is situated 1,500 feet northeast of Oxford Castle.
Somerville College
University
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Somerville College 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. Somerville College is situated 2,200 feet north of Oxford Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oxford and Jericho.
Oxford
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Oxford is the oldest university city in the United Kingdom, some 50 miles to the west of the capital London in its own county of Oxfordshire, on the rivers Thames and Cherwell.
Jericho
Suburb
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Jericho is a historic suburb of the English city of Oxford. It consists of the streets bounded by the Oxford Canal, Worcester College, Walton Street and Walton Well Road.
Grandpont
Quarter
Grandpont is a mainly residential area in south Oxford, England. It is west of Abingdon Road, and consists mainly of narrow streets that run at right angles to the main road, with terraced late-Victorian and Edwardian houses.
Oxford Castle
- Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
- Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Oxford Castle” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قلعة أوكسفورد”
- Catalan: “Castell d’Oxford”
- Cebuano: “Oxford Castle”
- Chinese: “牛津城堡”
- Danish: “Oxford Castle”
- Dutch: “Oxford Castle”
- French: “château d’Oxford”
- French: “Château d’Oxford”
- French: “Château dOxford”
- Galician: “Castelo de Oxford”
- German: “Oxford Castle”
- Greek: “Κάστρο της Οξφόρδης”
- Hungarian: “Oxfordi vár”
- Italian: “castello di Oxford”
- Italian: “Castello di Oxford”
- Italian: “Oxford Castle”
- Japanese: “オックスフォード城”
- Korean: “옥스퍼드성”
- Portuguese: “Castelo de Oxford”
- Russian: “Оксфордский замок”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Oxfordski zamak”
- Spanish: “Castillo de Oxford”
- Spanish: “Oxford Castle”
- Swedish: “Oxford Castle”
- Turkish: “Oxford Kalesi”
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