C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis is a memorial in Risinghurst and Sandhills, Oxford, England. C. S. Lewis is situated nearby to the museum The Kilns, as well as near the playground Richards Way Children’s Ball Park.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include The Kilns and Shotover.

The Kilns

Museum

Photo: jschroe, CC BY 2.0.

The Kilns, also known as C. S. Lewis House, is the house in Risinghurst, Oxford, England, where the author C. S. Lewis wrote all of his Narnia books and other classics.

Shotover is a hill and forest in the civil parish of Forest Hill with Shotover, in the South Oxfordshire district, in the county of Oxfordshire, England. The hill is 3 miles east of Oxford. Its highest point is 557 feet above sea level.

Holy Trinity Church

Church

Photo: EugeneStarostin, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Holy Trinity Church, Headington Quarry, is located in the village of Headington Quarry, Oxford, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the Diocese of Oxford. Holy Trinity Church is situated 1,900 feet west of C. S. Lewis.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wood Farm and Barton.

Wood Farm

Suburb

Wood Farm is a suburb of Oxford, England, 3.5 miles southeast of the city centre. It is mainly made up of social housing built in the 1950s to 1960s, originally to house workers of the nearby car factory. It is near to Headington, Cowley and Morrell Avenue.

Barton

Suburb

Photo: David Hawgood, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Barton is a village and suburb of Oxford, in Oxfordshire, England. It is 3 miles east of the centre of Oxford, just outside the Oxford Ring Road. It is near to Headington, Risinghurst and Marston.

Headington Hill

Neighborhood

Photo: BrainVE, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Headington Hill is a hill in the east of Oxford, England, in the suburb of Headington. The Headington Road goes up the hill leading out of the city. There are good views of the spires of Oxford from the hill, especially from the top of South Park. Headington Hill is situated 1½ miles west of C. S. Lewis.

C. S. Lewis

Type: Memorial
Inscription: “C. S. Lewis 1898‒1963, scholar and author, lived here 1930‒1963”
Category: historic site
Location: Risinghurst and Sandhills, Oxford, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.75675° or 51° 45′ 24″ north

Longitude

-1.18982° or 1° 11′ 23″ west

Open location code

9C3WQR46+M3

OpenStreetMap ID

node 13983903757

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=memorial

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