Carfax
Carfax is the junction of St Aldate's, Cornmarket Street, Queen Street and the High Street in Oxford, England. It is considered to be the centre of the city.Photo: Motacilla, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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- Type: Pedestrian zone
- Description: crossroads; central area of Oxford in England
- Also known as: “Carfax, Oxford”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Jesus College and Brasenose College.
Jesus College
University
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Jesus College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. It is in the centre of the city, on a site between Turl Street, Ship Street, Cornmarket Street and Market Street. Jesus College is situated 520 feet north of Carfax.
Brasenose College
University
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Brasenose College, formally The Principal and Scholars of the King's Hall and College of Brasenose in Oxford, or BNC, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Brasenose College is situated 780 feet northeast of Carfax.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oxford and Grandpont.
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.
Grandpont
Quarter
Grandpont is a mainly residential area in south Oxford, England. It is west of Abingdon Road, and consists mainly of narrow streets that run at right angles to the main road, with terraced late-Victorian and Edwardian houses.
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.
Carfax
- Categories: road junction and city center
- Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.75197° or 51° 45′ 7″ northLongitude
-1.25778° or 1° 15′ 28″ westOpen location code
9C3WQP2R+QVOpenStreetMap ID
way 469136813OpenStreetMap feature
highway=pedestrianWikidata ID
Q1035968
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Swedish—“Carfax” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “卡尔法克斯塔”
- Dutch: “Carfax”
- German: “Carfax Tower”
- Irish: “Carfax, Oxford”
- Irish: “Carfax”
- Italian: “Carfax”
- Japanese: “カーファックス (オックスフォード)”
- Serbian: “Карфакс”
- Slovenian: “Carfax”
- Swedish: “Carfax, Oxford”
- Swedish: “Carfax”
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