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Oxford and Circus
At Oxford Circus the tunnel runs close to the Bakerloo line tunnel of the London Underground.
The nearest London Underground stations are Oxford Circus, Piccadilly Circus, Tottenham Court Road, Leicester Square and Covent Garden.
Charing Cross Road, London, looking north from its junction with Cranbourn StreetCharing Cross Road is a street in central London running immediately north of St Martin-in-the-Fields to St Giles Circus ( the intersection with Oxford Street ) and then becomes Tottenham Court Road.
The northern section between Cambridge Circus and Oxford Street includes more generalist bookshops such as the venerable Foyles and Blackwell's.
** Oxford Circus, London
* Oxford Circus tube station, London
* Oxford Circus
* Oxford Circus
Particularly significant is the direct same-level interchange with the Bakerloo line at Oxford Circus, a pivotal node at the heart of the whole network, facilitating a wide range of north-south journeys across central London.
* N136 Oxford Circus-Chislehurst via Piccadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square, Victoria, Vauxhall, Kennington, Peckham, Lewisham, Catford and Downham, Grove Park
Kensal Green tube station ( Zone 2 ) on the Bakerloo Line is only 20 minutes from Oxford Circus and the West End.
The nearest London Underground stations are Bond Street, Green Park, Hyde Park Corner, Marble Arch and Oxford Circus.
Although smoking was banned on the subsurface sections of the London Underground in February 1985 ( a consequence of the Oxford Circus fire ), the fire was most probably caused by a traveller discarding a burning match, which fell down the side of the escalator onto the running track ( Fennell 1988, p. 111 ).
Following a fire at Oxford Circus station the ban was extended to all subsurface stations but smokers often ignored this and lit cigarettes on the escalators on their way out.
28 Days Later features scenes set in normally bustling parts of London such as Westminster Bridge, Piccadilly Circus, Horse Guards Parade, and Oxford Street.
It consists of five sections, entitled " Committee Meeting ," " In the Wood ," " In the Ball-room ," " Soliloquy ," and " In the Tube at Oxford Circus.
The initial scheme covered a 12 mile radius around Oxford Circus and the public were advised only to use it in ongoing emergency if " for instance, the man in the flat next to yours is murdering his wife or you have seen a heavily masked cat burglar peering round the stack pipe of the local bank building.
Tottenham Court Road is a major road in central London, United Kingdom, running from St Giles Circus ( the junction of Oxford Street and Charing Cross Road ) north to Euston Road, near the border of the City of Westminster and the London Borough of Camden, a distance of about three-quarters of a mile.
Centre Point is a substantial concrete and glass office building in central London, England, occupying 101-103 New Oxford Street, WC1, close to St Giles Circus and almost directly above Tottenham Court Road tube station.
Hyams and Seifert engaged in negotiations with the London County Council over the height of the building, which was much taller than would normally be allowed and was highly controversial ; eventually he was allowed to build 32 floors in return for providing a new road junction between St Giles Circus, Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road, which the LCC could not afford to build on its own.
This had been done by other lines connecting with the CLR stations at Oxford Circus and Tottenham Court Road, but an interchange station was not initially constructed between the GNP & BR and the CLR because the tunnel alignment to British Museum station would not have been suitable for the GNP & BR's route to its Strand station ( later called Aldwych ).
It runs from the Regent's residence at Carlton House in St James's at the southern end, through Piccadilly Circus and Oxford Circus, to All Souls Church.
South of Oxford Circus, none of the original buildings survive.

Oxford and station
The estate was conveniently located within easy walking distance of Bletchley railway station, where the " Varsity Line " between the cities of Oxford and Cambridge – whose universities supplied many of the code-breakers – met the ( then-LMS ) main West Coast railway line between London and Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow.
* BBC Radio Oxford, a BBC radio station
* Oxford / City of Sheridan ( RTD ), a transit station in Sheridan, Colorado
* Oxford railway station, England
* Oxford Rewley Road railway station, a former railway station in Oxford, England
* Manchester Oxford Road railway station, a railway station in Manchester, England
* Oxford Road Halt railway station, a former railway station near Oxford, England
* Oxford services, a motorway service station near Oxford, England
Hayes and Harlington railway station offers frequent local services to London Paddington in about 15 – 20 minutes, and services to Slough, Reading and Oxford ; every 30 minutes there is a service to London Heathrow Airport.
Paddington station is the terminus for commuter services to the west of England ( e. g., Slough, Maidenhead, Reading, Swindon ) and mainline services to Oxford, Bristol, Bath, Taunton, Exeter, Plymouth, Cornwall and South Wales ( including Cardiff, Bridgend and Swansea ).
Southall is served by Southall railway station on the Great Western Main Line, providing links to Heathrow Airport, Reading and Oxford as well as London Paddington.
London Underground's Central and Jubilee lines both serve the regional station and link Stratford to Oxford Street, Wembley Stadium, Epping and Canary Wharf.
The nearest railway station is Hayes & Harlington, which offers frequent local services to London Paddington in about 15 – 20 minutes, and services to Slough, Reading and Oxford ; every 30 minutes there is a service to London Heathrow Airport.
Hayes and Harlington railway station offers frequent local services to London Paddington in about 15 – 20 minutes, and services to Slough, Reading and Oxford ; every 30 minutes there is a service to London Heathrow Airport.

Oxford and is
He is not one to remain more comfortably and unquestioningly within a body of social, cultural, or literary traditions than he was within the traditions -- or possibly the regulations -- governing his tenure in the post office at Oxford, Mississippi, thirty-five years ago.
And Lawrence Chase, son of the Ransom Chases, is listed at his new address in Oxford, Eng..
An Anglican clergyman in Oxford sadly but frankly acknowledged to me that this is true.
One of the more noteworthy changes that have taken place since the mid-19th century is the situation of Catholics at Oxford and Cambridge Universities.
Bowra's ability to single out important information is legendary and it is demonstrated in an anecdote about his days at Oxford.
Although the phrase " Arabic numeral " is frequently capitalized, it is sometimes written in lower case: for instance, in its entry in the Oxford English dictionary.
It is referred to colloquially as " the Queen's English ", " Oxford English " and " BBC English ", although by no means all who live in Oxford speak with such accent and the BBC does not require or use it exclusively.
Sir Andrew John Wiles, KBE, FRS ( born 11 April 1953 ) is a British mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at Oxford University, specializing in number theory.
Wiles is the son of Maurice Frank Wiles ( 1923 – 2005 ), the Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford and Patricia Wiles ( née Mowll ).
* 1928 – The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
Angela Vincent ( born 1942 ) is a professor at Somerville College of Oxford University.
He is an alumnus of Georgetown University where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Kappa Kappa Psi and earned a Rhodes Scholarship to attend the University of Oxford.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word baroque is derived from the Portuguese word " barroco ", Spanish " barroco ", or French " baroque ", all of which refer to a " rough or imperfect pearl ", though whether it entered those languages via Latin, Arabic, or some other source is uncertain.
There is no standard mode of celebration for Canada Day ; professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford Jennifer Welsh said of this: " Canada Day, like the country, is endlessly decentralized.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the translation of the French term into " human creature " implies that the label " Christian " is a reminder of the humanity of the afflicted, in contrast to brute beasts.
The earliest form cited in the Oxford English Dictionary ( from 1842 ) is " chipmonk ," but " chipmunk " appears in several books from the 1820s and 1830s.
The online Oxford Dictionaries entry for mouse states the plural for the small rodent is mice, while the plural for the small computer connected device is either mice or mouses.
The Oxford English Dictionary says its earliest quotation for " clipper " is from 1830.
According to David Leeming, writing in The Oxford Companion to World Mythology, the harrowing of hell is an example of the motif of the hero's descent to the underworld, which is common in many mythologies.

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