Parson’s Pleasure
Parson's Pleasure in the University Parks at Oxford, England, was a secluded area for male-only nude bathing on the River Cherwell. It was located next to the path on the way to Mesopotamia at the south-east corner of the Parks.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Christopher Hilton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Park
- Description: former bathing site in the English city of Oxford
- Also known as: “Parson’s Pleasure, Oxford”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Linacre College and Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
Linacre College
University
Linacre College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. The college was founded in 1962 and is named after Thomas Linacre, founder of the Royal College of Physicians as well as a distinguished renaissance humanist. Linacre College is situated 760 feet southwest of Parson’s Pleasure.
Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Museum
Photo: MykReeve, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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 2,100 feet west of Parson’s Pleasure.
St Catherine’s College
University
Photo: Munkfishmonger, CC BY 2.5.
St Catherine's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford. The college developed from the St Catherine's Society; it was granted full status as a college in 1962, after a campaign by the historian Alan Bullock, who became the first master of the college, and later vice-chancellor of the university. St Catherine’s College is situated 1,400 feet south of Parson’s Pleasure.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Norham Manor and Park Town.
Norham Manor
Quarter
Photo: Jpbowen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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
Photo: Jpbowen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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
Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Parson’s Pleasure
- Categories: bathing site and recreation area
- Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.7603° or 51° 45′ 37″ northLongitude
-1.24671° or 1° 14′ 48″ westOpen location code
9C3WQQ63+48OpenStreetMap ID
way 3488483OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=parkWikidata ID
Q7140012
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“Parson’s Pleasure” goes by many names.
- “Parson’s Pleasure”
- “Parson’s Pleasure, Oxford”
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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 “Parson’s Pleasure”. Photo: Christopher Hilton, CC BY-SA 2.0.