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Park Town, Oxford, the Glossary

Park Town is a small residential area in central North Oxford, a suburb of Oxford, England.^[1]

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Areas of Oxford
British companies established in 1857
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Grade II listed buildings in Oxford
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All Souls College, Oxford

All Souls College (official name: College of the Souls of All the Faithful Departed) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England.

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Ann Pasternak Slater

Dr Ann Pasternak Slater (born 3 August 1944) is a literary scholar and translator who was formerly a Fellow and Tutor at St Anne's College, Oxford.

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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (born 19 June 1945), sometimes abbreviated to Suu Kyi, is a Burmese politician, diplomat, author, and a 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate who served as State Counsellor of Myanmar (equivalent to a prime minister) and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2016 to 2021.

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Banbury Road

Banbury Road is a major arterial road in Oxford, England, running from St Giles' at the south end, north towards Banbury through the leafy suburb of North Oxford and Summertown, with its local shopping centre.

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Bath stone

Bath Stone is an oolitic limestone comprising granular fragments of calcium carbonate originally obtained from the Middle Jurassic aged Great Oolite Group of the Combe Down and Bathampton Down Mines under Combe Down, Somerset, England.

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Blue plaque

A blue plaque is a permanent sign installed in a public place in the United Kingdom, and certain other countries and territories, to commemorate a link between that location and a famous person, event, or former building on the site, serving as a historical marker.

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Bodleian Library

The Bodleian Library is the main research library of the University of Oxford.

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Booker Prize

The Booker Prize, formerly the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a prestigious literary award conferred each year for the best single work of sustained fiction written in the English language, which was published in the United Kingdom and/or Ireland.

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Boris Pasternak

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (p; 30 May 1960) was a Russian poet, novelist, composer, and literary translator.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

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Canterbury Road

Canterbury Road is a road in North Oxford, England.

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Central Labour College

The Central Labour College, also known as The Labour College, was a British higher education institution supported by trade unions.

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Charles Sutherland Elton

Charles Sutherland Elton (29 March 1900 – 1 May 1991) was an English zoologist and animal ecologist.

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Communal garden

A communal garden (often used in the plural as communal gardens) is a (normally formal) garden for shared use by a number of local residents, typically in an urban setting.

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Corpus Christi College, Oxford

Corpus Christi College (formally, Corpus Christi College in the University of Oxford; informally abbreviated as Corpus or CCC) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

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Crescent (architecture)

A crescent is an architectural structure where a row of residences, typically terraced houses, are laid out in an arc to form a crescent shape. Park Town, Oxford and crescent (architecture) are crescents (architecture).

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Doctor Zhivago (novel)

Doctor Zhivago (p) is a novel by Russian poet, author and composer Boris Pasternak, first published in 1957 in Italy.

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Dragon School

The Dragon School is a private school across two sites in Oxford, England.

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E. J. Bowen

Edmund ("Ted") John Bowen FRS (29 April 1898 – 19 November 1980) was a British physical chemist.

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Earl's Court

Earl's Court is a district of Kensington in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in West London, bordering the rail tracks of the West London line and District line that separate it from the ancient borough of Fulham to the west, the sub-districts of South Kensington to the east, Chelsea to the south and Kensington to the northeast.

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Ecological Society of America

The Ecological Society of America (ESA) is a professional organization of ecological scientists.

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Ecology

Ecology is the natural science of the relationships among living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment.

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Education

Education is the transmission of knowledge, skills, and character traits and manifests in various forms.

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Fellow

A fellow is a concept whose exact meaning depends on context.

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Godfrey Rolles Driver

Sir Godfrey Rolles Driver (20 August 1892 – 22 April 1975), known as G. R.

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Gov.uk

gov.uk (styled on the site as GOV.UK) is a United Kingdom public sector information website, created by the Government Digital Service to provide a single point of access to HM Government services.

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Henry Acland

Sir Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland, 1st Baronet, (23 August 181516 October 1900) was an English physician and educator.

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History of Science Museum, Oxford

The History of Science Museum in Broad Street, Oxford, England, holds a leading collection of scientific instruments from Middle Ages to the 19th century. The museum building is also known as the Old Ashmolean Building to distinguish it from the newer Ashmolean Museum building completed in 1894. The museum was built in 1683, and it is the world's oldest surviving purpose-built museum.

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Ian McEwan

Ian Russell McEwan (born 21 June 1948) is a British novelist and screenwriter.

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James Clerk Maxwell Garnett

James Clerk Maxwell Garnett CBE (13 October 1880 – 19 March 1958), commonly known as Maxwell Garnett, was an English educationist, barrister, peace campaigner and physicist.

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John Flemming

John Stanton Flemming CBE FBA (6 February 1941, Reading, Berkshire, England – 5 August 2003, Oxford, England) was an economist and Warden of Wadham College, Oxford.

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Kelly's Directory

Kelly's Directory (or more formally, the Kelly's, Post Office and Harrod & Co Directory) was a trade directory in Britain that listed all businesses and tradespeople in a particular city or town, as well as a general directory of postal addresses of local gentry, landowners, charities, and other facilities.

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League of Nations

The League of Nations (LN or LoN; Société des Nations, SdN) was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace.

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Leonid Pasternak

Leonid Osipovich Pasternak (Леонид Осипович Пастернак; born Yitzhok-Leib or Isaak Iosifovich Pasternak; – 31 May 1945) was a Russian painter.

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Listed building

In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural and/or historic interest deserving of special protection.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Lydia Pasternak Slater

Lydia Leonidovna Pasternak (Лидия Леонидовна Пастернак; March 8, 1902 – May 4, 1989), married name Lydia Pasternak Slater, was a Soviet research chemist, poet and translator.

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Magdalen College, Oxford

Magdalen College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford.

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Michael Dummett

Sir Michael Anthony Eardley Dummett (27 June 1925 – 27 December 2011) was an English academic described as "among the most significant British philosophers of the last century and a leading campaigner for racial tolerance and equality." He was, until 1992, Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford.

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New College, Oxford

New College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

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North Oxford

North Oxford is a suburban part of the city of Oxford in England. Park Town, Oxford and North Oxford are Areas of Oxford.

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Oriental studies

Oriental studies is the academic field that studies Near Eastern and Far Eastern societies and cultures, languages, peoples, history and archaeology.

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Oxford

Oxford is a city and non-metropolitan district in Oxfordshire, England, of which it is the county town.

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Oxford Mail

Oxford Mail is a daily tabloid newspaper in Oxford, England, owned by Newsquest.

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Oxford Preservation Trust

The Oxford Preservation Trust was founded in 1927 to preserve the city of Oxford, England. Park Town, Oxford and Oxford Preservation Trust are history of Oxford.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Oxford West and Abingdon (UK Parliament constituency)

Oxford West and Abingdon is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Layla Moran, a Liberal Democrat. Park Town, Oxford and Oxford West and Abingdon (UK Parliament constituency) are Areas of Oxford.

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Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon) is a ceremonial county in South East England.

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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board

The Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board established in 1999 was the brainchild of Sir Hugo Brunner, then Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire, and Edwin Townsend-Coles, Chairman of the Oxford Civic Society.

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Penguin Books

Penguin Books Limited is a British publishing house.

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Robert Boyd Publications

Robert Boyd Publications is a book publishing company based in Witney, Oxfordshire, England.

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Rupert Spira

Rupert Spira (born 1960) is an English philosopher, author and potter, based in Oxford, UK.

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Samuel Lipscomb Seckham

Samuel Lipscomb Seckham (Oxford 25 October 1827 – 4 February 1901) was an English Victorian architect, developer, magistrate and brewer.

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Sarah Angelina Acland

Sarah Angelina "Angie" Acland (26 June 1849 – 2 December 1930) was an English amateur photographer, known for her portraiture and as a pioneer of colour photography.

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St Anne's College, Oxford

St Anne's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The National Archives (United Kingdom)

The National Archives (TNA; Yr Archifau Cenedlaethol) is a non-ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Townhouse

A townhouse, townhome, town house, or town home, is a type of terraced housing.

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University College, Oxford

University College, formally The Master and Fellows of the College of the Great Hall of the University commonly called University College in the University of Oxford and colloquially referred to as "Univ", is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England.

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Victoria County History

The Victoria History of the Counties of England, commonly known as the Victoria County History or the VCH, is an English history project which began in 1899 with the aim of creating an encyclopaedic history of each of the historic counties of England, and was dedicated to Queen Victoria.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Town,_Oxford

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See also

Areas of Oxford

British companies established in 1857

Crescents (architecture)

Grade II listed buildings in Oxford

Parks and open spaces in Oxford

References