There are over 700 pages of history on this site. You can follow the pointer on the right to tour them all,
or pick a section below and just view those pages
Timeline & brief outline historyThe key dates and facts
Listed Buildings
Headington boasts over fifty listed buildings and structures
Other Headington BuildingsInteresting non-listed buildings in Headington
Old postcardsA selection of the many old postcards of Headington
Inns, pubs, and beerhouses
Brief history of 23 Headington pubs (11 of which still survive)
Shops
History of a selection of Headington shops, present and past
Schools
From the Free School of 1805 to the present day
Famous people of Headington
From Ethelred the Unready to Robert Maxwell
Descriptions
What some published works have to say about Headington
Press cuttings
Nineteenth-century news items about Headington
Reminiscences
Memories of Headington from the 1920s to the 1960s
The Quarries of Headington
Including Rock Edge and Magdalen Quarry NEW SECTION
Streets
Including Windmill Road, Pullen's Lane, Headington Road, and more to come NEW SECTION
Miscellaneous
Street names, hospitals, Headington Enclosure Award, and much more
Marston History
Listed buildings, famous people, and more
World War I
Big section with biographies of Headington & Marston’s war dead; plus some on World War II
Headington Inscriptions
On the separate Oxford History website
Manor of Heddington Not to be confused with the separate Manor of Headington...
Physical history resources that have moved away from Headington
- Oxfordshire
& Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Museum
This has moved from the Slade Barracks to Woodstock: see Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum website - Oxfordshire
Health Archives
These have been moved from the Warneford Hospital to the Oxfordshire History Centre at Cowley.
Limited opening: check the Health Archives website for times.
The Archaeology of East Oxford Project no longer has funding.
Reports of its work in Headington and Marston
City of Oxford History
Please visit www.oxfordhistory.org.uk
