Old Observatory

Old Observatory is an observatory in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Old Observatory is situated nearby to Genetic Garden, as well as near the pitch Old Parks.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Oxford University Museum of Natural History and Pitt Rivers Museum.

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 710 feet southwest of Old Observatory.

Pitt Rivers Museum

Museum

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Pitt Rivers Museum is a museum displaying the archaeological and anthropological collections of the University of Oxford in England. The museum is located to the east of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, and can only be accessed through that building. Pitt Rivers Museum is situated 580 feet southwest of Old Observatory.

Mansfield College

University

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Mansfield College, Oxford is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in Oxford, England. The college was founded in Birmingham in 1838 as a college for Nonconformist students. Mansfield College is situated 950 feet south of Old Observatory.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Norham Manor and Park Town.

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.

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.

Old Observatory

Type: Observatory
Categories: building, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.75997° or 51° 45′ 36″ north

Longitude

-1.2534° or 1° 15′ 12″ west

Operator

University of Oxford

Open location code

9C3WQP5W+XJ

OpenStreetMap ID

way 227776224

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

OpenStreetMap feature

man_made=observatory

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