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Oxford and the University
Oxford - the City.  Oxford is located about 55 miles north-west of
London. The city centre is dominated by the major colleges of the
University, but there is an excellent shopping centre with plenty of
restaurants and some famous old pubs and a covered market. As with
Cambridge, there are throngs of tourists who, with the student population,
make the city a bustling, lively place to be.
We love Oxford - the town, the colleges, the river, the whole atmosphere
of the place. We visit regularly and we'd love to live there, but we can't
afford to move - if anyone has about half a million quid to spare, we'd be
very grateful !! - and you could come to tea !
Oxford - the University.  The University has 39 colleges and 7
"Permanent Private Halls". The colleges are listed below and the links,
where available, are to our pages of postcards of the colleges.  In
addition, each college has its own website and links are provided to these
from the corresponding web page. In keeping with our policy only to
include postcards which are at least 50 years old, the list of colleges does
not include those founded after 1960. We are working on each college as
time permits, so if there is not yet a link to your favourite, please be
patient. We do not have postcards of every college so if you can provide
us with some images - and with some recollections of university life,
interesting facts and figures, anecdotes etc, we would be most grateful.
You may contact us via
this link.

Information given here about the colleges has been gleaned from a
variety of books and websites.
The Colleges.

All Souls   Balliol   Brasenose   Christ Church   Corpus Christi   Exeter   Hertford   Jesus   
Keble   Lady Margaret Hall   Lincoln   Magdalen   Mansfield   Merton   New   Nuffield   Oriel   
Pembroke   The Queen's   St Anne's   St Edmund Hall   St Hilda's   St Hugh's   St John's   St
Peter's   Somerville   
Trinity   University   Wadham   Worcester

(If there is no link, there is not yet a web page !! - but come back soon, we're working on
them !)
There is a lot of information about
Oxford and the University on the
internet - see what you can discover.
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