IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Woodstock Road, OXFORD, OX2 7NA
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Woodstock Road, OX2 7NA by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (143 Images Found)
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Woodstock Road, North Oxford
North Oxford consists in large part of two gently diverging routes northwards, the Woodstock Road and the Banbury Road, and the streets around them.
Image: © Christopher Hilton
Taken: 4 May 2017
0.03 miles
2
Woodstock Road, Oxford: former home of Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994) was a British chemist specialising in X-ray crystallography: she is notable for deciphering the structures of penicillin, vitamin B12 (for which she was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize for Chemistry) and insulin. She is, currently, still the only British woman to be awarded a scientific Nobel Prize. The blue plaque marks this as her former home.
Through her marriage to the historian Thomas Lionel Hodgkin (1910-1982) she became a member of the distinguished Hodgkin family, a Quaker dynasty whose other members include the pathologist Thomas Hodgkin (1798-1866), discoverer of what is now known as Hodgkin's Lymphoma; the painter Howard Hodgkin (1932-2017); and the physiologist Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, who shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine the year before Dorothy Hodgkin received hers.
More details about Dorothy Hodgkin can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Hodgkin.
Image: © Christopher Hilton
Taken: 4 May 2017
0.04 miles
4
East along Polstead Road, Oxford
The road wouldn't be of great interest were it not for its association with Lawrence of Arabia http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1984434
Image: © Brian Robert Marshall
Taken: 28 Jul 2010
0.05 miles
8
2 Polstead Road, Oxford
Otherwise just another substantial semi-detached Victorian villa, 2 Polstead Road is notable for being the childhood home of Colonel T E Lawrence, also known as Lawrence of Arabia, John Hume Ross and T E Shaw. He moved here with his parents in 1896 when he was about eight. His parents, who weren't married to each other, lived here until 1921 bringing up five sons of whom T E was the second oldest. The house has been graced with a blue plaque commemorating Lawrence's association with the property http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1984434 He lived in this cottage in Dorset until his death in a motorcycle accident on his way back to it http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/587816
Image: © Brian Robert Marshall
Taken: 28 Jul 2010
0.06 miles
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Blue plaque, 2 Polstead Road, Oxford
The plaque commemorating Lawrence of Arabia's association with the villa to which is attached can be seen in context here http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1984429 with a bit more about the property.
Image: © Brian Robert Marshall
Taken: 28 Jul 2010
0.06 miles
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Woodstock Road, Oxford: University College annexe
The entrance to the annexe, which houses third year undergraduates and postgraduates, is on Staverton Road.
Image: © Christopher Hilton
Taken: 4 May 2017
0.06 miles