Penrose

Penrose is an university building in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England which is located on Walton Street. Penrose is situated nearby to the grassland Park Lawn, as well as near Fellows Garden.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Somerville College and Green Templeton College.

Somerville College

University

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.

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.

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. Green Templeton College is situated 970 feet north of Penrose.

Somerville College Library

Library

Photo: Toblu, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Somerville College Library is the college library of Somerville College, one of the 38 colleges of the University of Oxford. The library is one of the largest college libraries at the University of Oxford and has achieved 100% student satisfaction in several annual surveys.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jericho and Oxford.

Jericho

Suburb

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

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.

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.

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.

Penrose

Type: University building
Address: Walton Street, Oxford, OX2 6AH
Categories: building and education
Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
View on OpenStreetMap

Latitude

51.75857° or 51° 45′ 31″ north

Longitude

-1.26343° or 1° 15′ 48″ west

Operator

Somerville College

Open location code

9C3WQP5P+CJ

OpenStreetMap ID

way 97853758

OpenStreetMap feature

building=university

This page is based on OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons.

We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.

Satellite Map

Discover Penrose from above in high-definition satellite imagery.

Places with the Same Name

Discover other places named “Penrose”.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Penrose Lawn and Fellows Garden.

Nearby Places

Explore places such as Catharine Hughes Building and Flora Anderson Hall.

Oxfordshire: Must-Visit Destinations

Delve into Oxford, Abingdon-on-Thames, Banbury, and Woodstock.

Curious Places to Discover

Uncover intriguing places from every corner of the globe.