South East England
Oxfordshire
Oxford

Headington Shark

The Headington Shark is a rooftop sculpture located at 2 New High Street, , , England, depicting a large shark embedded head-first in the roof of a house.
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  • Type: Work of art
  • Artwork_type: sculpture
  • Description: sculpture in Oxford, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Shark House”, “The Headington Shark”, “Untitled 1986”, and “Untitled, 1986”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include The Britannia Public House and All Saints‘ Church.

Pub
Photo: Magnus Manske, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Church
Photo: Motacilla, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is situated 970 feet south of Headington Shark.

Hospital
Photo: ceridwen, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a large tertiary teaching hospital in , England. It forms part of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and is named after John Radcliffe, an 18th-century physician and Oxford University graduate, who endowed the , the main hospital for Oxford from 1770 until 2007. is situated 2,300 feet northwest of Headington Shark.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wood Farm and Barton.

Suburb
is a suburb of , , 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 , and Morrell Avenue.

Suburb
Photo: David Hawgood, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village and suburb of , in , . It is 3 miles east of the centre of Oxford, just outside the Oxford Ring Road. It is near to , Risinghurst and .

Village
Photo: Motacilla, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an English village and civil parish about 3 miles northeast of the centre of . The village is 310 feet above sea level on the western brow of a hill with relatively steep sides above the . is situated 2 miles north of Headington Shark.

Headington Shark

Latitude
51.75894° or 51° 45′ 32″ north
Longitude
-1.21329° or 1° 12′ 48″ west
Open location code
9C3WQQ5P+HM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 31374891
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­artwork
Open­Street­Map attribute
artwork_type=­sculpture
Wiki­data ID
Q1232073
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Slovak—“Headington Shark” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Հեդինգթոնյան շնաձուկ”
  • Czech: “Headington Shark”
  • Czech: “Headingtonský žralok”
  • Czech: “Shark House”
  • Dutch: “De Haai van Headington”
  • Dutch: “Haai van Headington”
  • Dutch: “Headington Shark”
  • French: “Le requin de Headington”
  • French: “Requin de Headington”
  • French: “Untitled 1986”
  • Galician: “Quenlla de Headington”
  • German: “Headington Shark”
  • Italian: “Headington Shark”
  • Italian: “Squalo di Headington”
  • Japanese: “ザ・ヘディントン・シャーク”
  • Latin: “Volpes marina Hedintonis”
  • Polish: “Rekin z Headington”
  • Russian: “Хедингтонская акула”
  • Slovak: “Headington Shark”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Headington Shark”. Photo: ceridwen, CC BY-SA 2.0.