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.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.
Oxford Railway Station
Railway station
Photo: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Oxford is a main line railway station, one of two that serve the city of Oxford, in Oxfordshire, England. It lies about 0.5 miles west of the city centre, north-west of Frideswide Square and the eastern end of Botley Road. Oxford Railway Station is situated 990 feet west 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
- View on OpenStreetMap
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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