Abel Beesley
Abel Beesley is a memorial in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Abel Beesley is situated nearby to Little Hythe Bridge, as well as near Rewley Road Fire Station.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Worcester College and Somerville 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 630 feet north of Abel Beesley.
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 2,000 feet north of Abel Beesley.
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 1,800 feet east of Abel Beesley.
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.
Abel Beesley
- Type: Memorial
- Inscription: “ABEL BEESLEY 1851-1921 Waterman Invincible Punting Champion of England who popularised the punt as a leisure craft Lived here 1899-1921”
- Category: historic site
- Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.75378° or 51° 45′ 14″ northLongitude
-1.26561° or 1° 15′ 56″ westOpen location code
9C3WQP3M+GQOpenStreetMap ID
node 13286418262OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorial
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