Penicillin
Penicillin is a memorial in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Penicillin is situated nearby to the terrace house St Giles Terrace, as well as near St Luke’s Chapel.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Somerville College and Green Templeton College.
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 500 feet southwest of Penicillin.
Green Templeton College
University
Green Templeton College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. The college is located on the former Green College site on Woodstock Road next to the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter in North Oxford and is centred on the architecturally important Radcliffe Observatory, an 18th-century building, modelled on the ancient Tower of the Winds in Athens. Green Templeton College is situated 560 feet northwest of Penicillin.
Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Museum
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The Oxford University Museum of Natural History is a museum displaying many of the University of Oxford's natural history specimens, located on Parks Road in Oxford, England. Oxford University Museum of Natural History is situated 1,500 feet southeast of Penicillin.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jericho and Norham Manor.
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.
Norham Manor
Quarter
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The Norham Manor estate is a residential suburb in Oxford, England. It is part of central North Oxford. To the north is Park Town with its crescents, to the east is the River Cherwell, to the south are the University Parks and to the west is Walton Manor, on the other side of Banbury Road.
Park Town
Neighborhood
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Park Town is a small residential area in central North Oxford, a suburb of Oxford, England. It was one of the earliest planned suburban developments in the area and most of the houses are Grade II listed.
Penicillin
- Type: Memorial
- Inscription: “Penicillin. The first antibiotic was first used to treat infection here at the Outpatients building of the former Radcliffe Infirmary on 12 February 1941”
- Category: historic site
- Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.76018° or 51° 45′ 37″ northLongitude
-1.26163° or 1° 15′ 42″ westOperator
Oxfordshire Blue Plaques BoardOpen location code
9C3WQP6Q+38OpenStreetMap ID
node 13987525646OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorial
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include St Giles Terrace and St Luke’s Chapel.
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