Headington

Road junction of the Old High Street in the St. Andrew's Road in the heart of Old Headington . In the background St. Andrew's Church .

Headington is a former suburb and today's district of Oxford in south-east England and is located about four kilometers east of the city center of Oxford above the Thames Valley on Headington Hill ( German  Headington Hill ). The current name of the place is derived from Old English Hedena’s dun , which means "Hedena's hill". The main thoroughfare is London Road , which as the A40 arterial road leads to the British capital 80 kilometers south-east and to the west as Headington Road in the center of Oxford.

history

The Anglican Church of St. Andrew’s named after the Apostle Andreas dates back to around 1160. The bell tower was completed around 1500.

The Headington Shark ( German  "Headington- Hai " ), a sculpture made of fiberglass , is located in the New High Street 2 and is a popular landmark not only for Headington, but for all of Oxford.

Artifacts found in Headington indicate an early settlement as early as the Stone Age , the Bronze Age and the Iron Age . Around 300  AD , the Romans settled here and were replaced by Anglo-Saxons two centuries later, from the beginning of the 6th century . In 1009, King Æthelred the Unadvised had a residence here. Headington is also mentioned in the Domesday Book with the Latin phrase REX tenet HEDINTONE ( German "The King holds Hedintone" ). In 1135, Henry I, the last English king to reside in Headington, died.  

With the beginning of modern times and especially in the 19th century , Headington developed rapidly. While the population was only 669 in 1801, it rose to 1668 in 1841 and 3005 in 1891.

Institutions

Headington is home to Oxford Brookes University , one of the city's two major universities . It is divided into three campuses , with the Headington Campus as the main campus comprising the facilities of the Gipsy Lane site and the neighboring Headington Hill site . It is also home to the University of Oxford's Ruskin College and Old Road campuses, as well as four major local hospitals - John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital, Warneford Hospital and the Nuffield Orthopedic Center.

Sports

Headington FC was founded in 1893 ; a year later they merged with Headington Quarry to Headington United FC. Since 1960 he is known as Oxford United . Until 2001, the club played in the Major Ground Stadium , but this had to give way to the construction of the Nuffield Orthopedic Center. The new Kassam Stadium was built outside of Headington, in the south of the city. The second football team in the district, the Headington Amateurs , play under-class.

Famous residents

• JRR Tolkien (1892–1973), British novelist and author of The Lord of the Rings , lived at 76 Sandfield Road from 1953 to 1968
• CS Lewis (1898–1963), Irish writer and author of The Chronicles of Narnia , lived here from 1921 to 1930
• Joan Clarke (1917–1996), English cryptanalyst , lived in Larkfields 7 from 1986 until her death
• John Simpson (* 1953), English lexicographer
• Emma Watson (born 1990), British actress

literature

• Christine Bloxham and Susanne Shatford: The Changing Faces of Headington - Book One. Robert Boyd Publications, 1996, ISBN 978-1899536054

Web links

Commons : Headington  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Headington Official Website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ St Andrews Church (English) accessed January 16, 2018
2. ↑ St Andrew's Church (English) accessed January 16, 2018
3. ↑ Headington Shark, Oxford (English) accessed on January 16, 2018
4. ↑ Headington in the Domesday Book in 1086 (English) accessed on January 16, 2018
5. ↑ Headington history (English) accessed on January 16, 2018

Coordinates: 51 ° 46 ′  N , 1 ° 13 ′  W