Snakes Island
Snakes Island is a nature reserve in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Access is restricted and requires permission. Snakes Island is situated nearby to the suburb Jericho, as well as near the neighborhood St Thomas‘.Places of Interest
Highlights include Somerville College and Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
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.
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.
Balliol College
University
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Balliol College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford, England. Founded in 1263 by nobleman John I de Balliol, it has a claim to be the oldest college in Oxford and the English-speaking world.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oxford and Sandford-on-Thames.
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.
Sandford-on-Thames
Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sandford-on-Thames is a village in Oxfordshire, just south of Oxford. It combines the charming peace of a small old-English village with easy access to the nearby city centre, making it a pleasant base from where to explore both Oxford and the surrounding English landscapes.
Cowley
Suburb
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Cowley is a residential and industrial area in Oxford, in the county of Oxfordshire, England. Cowley's neighbours are Rose Hill and Blackbird Leys to the south, Headington to the north and the villages of Horspath and Garsington across fields to the east.
Snakes Island
- Access is restricted and requires permission.
- Type: Nature reserve
- Categories: forest and recreation area
- Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.7557° or 51° 45′ 21″ northLongitude
-1.2696° or 1° 16′ 10″ westOperator
Rewley Park Management Co. LtdOpen location code
9C3WQP4J+75OpenStreetMap ID
way 329191619OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=nature_reserveOpenStreetMap feature
natural=wood
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