Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme
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Commemorating remarkable people and highly significant events and locations throughout Oxfordshire since 2001 https://www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/
And now another house in Oxford that has an Oxfordshire Blue Plaque is for sale: Iris Murdoch's home in Charlbury Road: www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
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October 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
And now another house in Oxford that has an Oxfordshire Blue Plaque is for sale: Iris Murdoch's home in Charlbury Road: www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
Following the move of the Oxford Internet Institute to the Schwarzman Centre, the freehold of 34 St Giles’ Street, which sports an Oxfordshire blue plaque to the builders Daniel Evans and Joshua Symm, is now for sale: www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/com...
St. Giles, Oxford OX1, Office for sale, Non quoting - Zoopla
Office for sale in St. Giles, Oxford OX1, selling for Non quoting from CBRE. See property details on Zoopla or browse all our range of properties in St. Giles, Oxford OX1.
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October 22, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Following the move of the Oxford Internet Institute to the Schwarzman Centre, the freehold of 34 St Giles’ Street, which sports an Oxfordshire blue plaque to the builders Daniel Evans and Joshua Symm, is now for sale: www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/com...
Here are all the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques that were unveiled in 2025. Unusually, they are all outside the city (although the one to Sir Muirhead Bone is only just outside)
September 21, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Here are all the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques that were unveiled in 2025. Unusually, they are all outside the city (although the one to Sir Muirhead Bone is only just outside)
An Oxfordshire blue plaque to the artist Sir Muirhead Bone was unveiled yesterday (20 September 2025) at Grayflete in Vernon Avenue off Harcourt Hill. He designed this house and lived in it from 1931 to 1953 www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/bone...
September 21, 2025 at 7:21 AM
An Oxfordshire blue plaque to the artist Sir Muirhead Bone was unveiled yesterday (20 September 2025) at Grayflete in Vernon Avenue off Harcourt Hill. He designed this house and lived in it from 1931 to 1953 www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/bone...
The Goring Gap Boathouse, which has an Oxfordshire Blue Plaque to the boatbuilder Simon Saunders, has just been Grade II listed: historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/in...
Picturesque Goring Gap Boathouse Listed | Historic England
A Victorian boathouse in Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire has been listed at Grade II.
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August 29, 2025 at 6:20 AM
The Goring Gap Boathouse, which has an Oxfordshire Blue Plaque to the boatbuilder Simon Saunders, has just been Grade II listed: historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/in...
An Oxfordshire Blue Plaque was unveiled in Thame this morning to John Henry Smythe, an RAF officer who became one of Britain’s first black barristers and a QC, and then served as Attorney General of Sierra Leone www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/smyt...
July 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
An Oxfordshire Blue Plaque was unveiled in Thame this morning to John Henry Smythe, an RAF officer who became one of Britain’s first black barristers and a QC, and then served as Attorney General of Sierra Leone www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/smyt...
More about Lord Berners who in 1935 commissioned Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington, to build the 104 ft Faringdon Folly Tower here: www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/bern...
July 22, 2025 at 8:10 AM
More about Lord Berners who in 1935 commissioned Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington, to build the 104 ft Faringdon Folly Tower here: www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/bern...
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Faringdon’s 1935 Folly Tower is proposed for extensive restoration work by the trust that owns it. The brick tower was built as a birthday present and originally contained a grand piano allowing the owner to “play among the treetops”. It has 154 steps to the top.
July 22, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Faringdon’s 1935 Folly Tower is proposed for extensive restoration work by the trust that owns it. The brick tower was built as a birthday present and originally contained a grand piano allowing the owner to “play among the treetops”. It has 154 steps to the top.
Today’s “Oxford Sausage” revisits Chiang Yee, who has an Oxfordshire blue plaque in Southmoor Road, Oxford: theoxfordsausage.com/chiang-yees-...
Chiang Yee's Oxford | The Oxford Sausage
‘The Silent Traveller in Oxford’ by Chiang Yee is inscribed in a flowing red script along the spine of a cream linen bound volume, with its Chinese calligraphic equivalent written vertically from top ...
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July 13, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Today’s “Oxford Sausage” revisits Chiang Yee, who has an Oxfordshire blue plaque in Southmoor Road, Oxford: theoxfordsausage.com/chiang-yees-...
An Oxfordshire blue plaque to the antiquarian and stonemason John Kibble was unveiled at Finstock yesterday (5 July 2025): www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/kibb...
July 6, 2025 at 7:09 AM
An Oxfordshire blue plaque to the antiquarian and stonemason John Kibble was unveiled at Finstock yesterday (5 July 2025): www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/kibb...
An Oxfordshire Blue Plaque to Dylan Thomas was unveiled yesterday (7 June 2025) at the Manor House in South Leigh, where he lived while working on “Under Milk Wood”: www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/thom...
June 8, 2025 at 6:45 AM
An Oxfordshire Blue Plaque to Dylan Thomas was unveiled yesterday (7 June 2025) at the Manor House in South Leigh, where he lived while working on “Under Milk Wood”: www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/thom...
Mark Davies will be leading a walk in Oxford City Centre entitled “Blue Plaques, Blue Stockings, and Blue Sky Walk” on Sunday 29 June and Sunday 13 July 2025 as part of the Oxfordshire Festival of the Arts. Buy your tickets here: www.ticketsoxford.com/events/blue-...
Blue Plaques, Blue Stockings, and Blue Sky Walk | Tickets Oxford
A city centre tour of locations associated with individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to architecture, art, education, feminism, gastronomy
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June 2, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Mark Davies will be leading a walk in Oxford City Centre entitled “Blue Plaques, Blue Stockings, and Blue Sky Walk” on Sunday 29 June and Sunday 13 July 2025 as part of the Oxfordshire Festival of the Arts. Buy your tickets here: www.ticketsoxford.com/events/blue-...
On 17 May 2025 an Oxfordshire blue plaque to Herbert Payne, campaigner for Oxfordshire’s first council houses, was unveiled at his former home at 71 Queens Road, Banbury
May 18, 2025 at 6:41 AM
On 17 May 2025 an Oxfordshire blue plaque to Herbert Payne, campaigner for Oxfordshire’s first council houses, was unveiled at his former home at 71 Queens Road, Banbury
Then coincidentally the Tuesday edition of “Great British Railways” starts (at 02.29mins) with a piece on Sir Ludwig Guttmann, who also has an Oxfordshire Blue Plaque (on 63 Lonsdale Road): www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
May 14, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Then coincidentally the Tuesday edition of “Great British Railways” starts (at 02.29mins) with a piece on Sir Ludwig Guttmann, who also has an Oxfordshire Blue Plaque (on 63 Lonsdale Road): www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
There’s an interesting piece about Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, who has an Oxfordshire Blue Plaque on 94 Woodstock Road, in the Monday edition of Michael Portillo’s repeated “Great British Railways” series on BBC4 this week. Here on the i-Player at 04.41mins: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
May 14, 2025 at 7:24 AM
There’s an interesting piece about Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, who has an Oxfordshire Blue Plaque on 94 Woodstock Road, in the Monday edition of Michael Portillo’s repeated “Great British Railways” series on BBC4 this week. Here on the i-Player at 04.41mins: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
More on Olive Gibbs and her Oxfordshire Blue Plaque here: www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/gibb...
Here are Christ Church Old Buildings (with Olive Gibbs’ home marked with a blue plaque) and an article from Jackson’s Oxford Journal of 13 October 1866 describing these "model dwellings for the poor" as they were being erected
April 18, 2025 at 6:19 AM
More on Olive Gibbs and her Oxfordshire Blue Plaque here: www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/gibb...
You can see William Buckland's Oxfordshire blue plaque on the Old Rectory in Islip www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/buck...
March 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
You can see William Buckland's Oxfordshire blue plaque on the Old Rectory in Islip www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/buck...
This Historic England blog on “Groundbreaking English Women of Science” includes two women who have been awarded Oxfordshire Blue Plaques on houses in Oxford city (Dorothy Hodgkin and Joan Clarke): heritagecalling.com/2025/01/16/g...
Groundbreaking English Women of Science in History
Discover the lives of women who impacted scientific discoveries in England's history, such as Marie Stopes and codebreaker Joan Clarke.
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January 16, 2025 at 8:01 AM
This Historic England blog on “Groundbreaking English Women of Science” includes two women who have been awarded Oxfordshire Blue Plaques on houses in Oxford city (Dorothy Hodgkin and Joan Clarke): heritagecalling.com/2025/01/16/g...
An exhibition on “Ronnie Barker: Oxford’s Comedy Legend” opens at the Museum of Oxford in the Town Hall today (11 Jan 2025) and runs to 19 April: museumofoxford.org/whats-on/spe...
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January 11, 2025 at 9:04 AM
An exhibition on “Ronnie Barker: Oxford’s Comedy Legend” opens at the Museum of Oxford in the Town Hall today (11 Jan 2025) and runs to 19 April: museumofoxford.org/whats-on/spe...
Did you know that the film Star Heather Angel was the daughter of the Oxford chemist Andrea Angel who has a blue plaque at 15 Banbury Road? More about Heather here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather...
Heather Angel (actress) - Wikipedia
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January 1, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Did you know that the film Star Heather Angel was the daughter of the Oxford chemist Andrea Angel who has a blue plaque at 15 Banbury Road? More about Heather here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather...
The unveiling season for this year is now over, and here are the new 2024 plaques. The colour varies according to the amount of sunlight
November 17, 2024 at 3:36 PM
The unveiling season for this year is now over, and here are the new 2024 plaques. The colour varies according to the amount of sunlight