Radcliffe Observatory
Radcliffe Observatory was the astronomical observatory of the University of Oxford from 1773 until 1934, when the Radcliffe Trustees sold it and built a new observatory in Pretoria, South Africa.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Green Templeton College and Somerville College.
Green Templeton College
University
Green Templeton College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. The college is located on the former Green College site on Woodstock Road next to the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter in North Oxford and is centred on the architecturally important Radcliffe Observatory, an 18th-century building, modelled on the ancient Tower of the Winds in Athens.
Somerville College
University
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. Somerville College is situated 710 feet south of Radcliffe Observatory.
Bate Collection of Historical Musical Instruments
Museum
The Bate Collection of Historical Musical Instruments is a museum of musical instruments from the Middle Ages onwards. It was housed in Oxford University's Faculty of Music near Christ Church on St.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jericho and Norham Manor.
Jericho
Suburb
Norham Manor
Quarter
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
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.
Radcliffe Observatory
- Type: Building
- Description: Grade I listed observatory in Oxford, United Kingdom
- Category: university observatory
- Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.76085° or 51° 45′ 39″ north
Longitude
-1.26386° or 1° 15′ 50″ west
Open location code
9C3WQP6P+8F
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Ukrainian—“Radcliffe Observatory” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Observatori Radcliffe”
- Chinese: “雷德克里夫天文台”
- Dutch: “Radcliffe Observatorium”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مرصد رادكليف”
- French: “observatoire Radcliffe”
- French: “Observatoire Radcliffe”
- German: “Radcliffe Observatory”
- German: “Radcliffe-Observatorium”
- Italian: “Radcliffe Observatory”
- Japanese: “ラドクリフ天文台”
- Korean: “래드클리프 천문대”
- Luxembourgish: “Radcliffe Observatoire”
- Portuguese: “Observatório Radcliffe”
- Romanian: “observatorul Radcliffe”
- Russian: “Обсерватория Оксфордского университета”
- Russian: “Обсерватория Радклиффа”
- Russian: “Обсерватория Редклифф”
- Russian: “Обсерватория Рэдклифа”
- Russian: “Оксфордская обсерватория”
- Spanish: “Observatorio Radcliffe”
- Swedish: “Radcliffe Observatory”
- Turkish: “Radcliffe Gözlemevi”
- Ukrainian: “Обсерваторія Редкліффа”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Radcliffe Meteorological Station and Gym.
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