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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 !
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 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 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 !)
All Souls Balliol Brasenose Christ Church Corpus Christi Exeter Hertford Jesus
Keble Lady Margaret Hall Lincoln Magdalen 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 !)