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3 days ago · (26) Worcester College stands on the W. side of Stockwell Street. The walls are of local Oxfordshire stone and the roofs are slate-covered. Gloucester College was established in 1298 as a college for Benedictine monks of the province of Canterbury; it incorporated an earlier establishment founded as a cell of Gloucester Abbey and from this the ...
5 days ago · His new plan was to turn the hall into an ordinary Oxford college. In 1696 he heard that Sir Thomas Cookes of Bentley, Worcestershire, planned to give, or leave, £10,000 towards the foundation of a college at Oxford, and immediately urged upon him that Gloucester Hall would make a suitable college.
3 days ago · In 1636 the largest of the five freeholds, all of which derived from sales of land by George Owen between 1610 and 1612, was the St. John's College estate, held by Richard Bull of Oxford university, perhaps a college servant.
2 days ago · Oxford ( / ˈɒksfərd /) [5] [6] is a city and non-metropolitan district in Oxfordshire, England, of which it is the county town. Founded in the 8th century, it was granted city status in 1542. The city is located at the confluence of the rivers Thames (locally known as the Isis) and Cherwell.
4 days ago · Students and their teachers will 'Meet the Into the Blue researchers' at Wadham College. Capturing Light: they'll discover the work of Oxford Chemistry's Ritchie, Vallance and Cotterell groups and understand how optical cavities are used to analyse gases in our lungs, water pollutants and aerosols.
2 days ago · Cromwell followed them south and caught them at Worcester on 3 September 1651, and his forces destroyed the last major Scottish Royalist army at the Battle of Worcester. Charles II barely escaped capture and fled to exile in France and the Netherlands, where he remained until 1660.
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