United's home ground is the Kassam Stadium in Oxford and has a capacity of 12, 500.

During October 1998, the backroom staff at the club went unpaid, due to United's financial situation with the new stadium, and the threat of administration caused a group of fans to set up a pressure group called Fighting for Oxford United's Life ( FOUL ).

That point wasn't lost on Lurgan and in 2003 they locked the gates on their town centre ground and relocated to share Oxford United's ground on the edge of Lurgan at Knockramer Park, which offered better facilities for all.

Events held towards the campaign included the very first Oxford Santa Run, raising over £ 30000, the Oxford Moonlight Stroll, an online auction and a charity football tournament held in Abingdon, as well as a team of Fox presenters take on the stars from teen soap Hollyoaks in a celebrity football match at Oxford United's Kassam Stadium in June 2008, as well as a greyhound race night, buggy trek and a charity premiere.

Aldridge is fondly remembered by Oxford fans for his role in Oxford United's unprecedented years of success between 1984 and 1986.

They are known as the U2's in reference to Oxford United's nickname ' The U's '.

A contretemps occurred during the progress in mid-August when the Queen twice requested Oxford to dance before the French ambassadors, who were in England to negotiate a marriage between the 46 year old Elizabeth and the younger brother of Henri III of France, the 24 year old Duke of Anjou.

The Oxford English Dictionary ( first edition ) associates it with such onomatopoeic words as flit and flick, emphasizing a lack of seriousness ; on the other hand, it has been attributed to the old French conter fleurette, which means " to ( try to ) seduce " by the dropping of flower petals, that is, " to speak sweet nothings ".

Oxford was born in 1550, and was between 40 and 53 years old when he presumably would have written the sonnets.

In the election he defeated an old contemporary from the Oxford Union, Ashley Bramall, with a majority of 133 votes.

The five quarter chimes were taken from the old peal of twelve in the Oxford Tower ( where the clock was originally ), and hung from beams in the Arundel Tower.

* St John's College ( Oxford ) Boat Club calls its 1st VIII old boys club the Argonauts.

Oxford Street, old US 52, is the central E-W street and the only blinking traffic light in town is located at its junction with Main Street.

Merton has had a reputation for having the best food in Oxford since an old Mertonian left money specifically for the improvement of the kitchens, and this budget was further augmented during the two years when Crown Prince Naruhito of Japan studied there ( 1983 – 85 ).

The garden fills the southeastern corner of the old walled city of Oxford.

Firstly, it was written in English, rather than Latin, which makes it very unusual in Oxford, and is especially revolutionary considering the College's age ; even St Catherine's College, founded in 1965, has a Latin motto (" Nova et Vetera ": " the new and the old ").

File: Newcollege old quad oxondude. jpg | The old quad of New College, Oxford.

In 1960, Trevor-Roper waged a successful campaign against the candidacy of Sir Oliver Franks who was backed by the heads of houses marshalled by Maurice Bowra, for the Chancellorship of the University of Oxford, and had his old friend and publisher the Prime Minister Harold Macmillan elected instead.

However, with the passing of the Toll Road Act, this highway was gravelled and so the old Oxford Road became an increasingly busy and important thoroughfare running from east to west through the centre of the parish.

Guiseley Baptist Church was built in 1883 on Oxford Road in the old town.

A few years later, in 1935, Harriet returns to Oxford for a reunion ( or Gaudy ) and is asked to investigate some strange occurrences at her old college.

On his return to England in 1496 he took orders and settled at Oxford, where he lectured on the epistles of Saint Paul, replacing the old scholastic method of interpretation with one more in harmony with the new learning.

Break Down, the work which put him in the public eye, was held in February 2001 at an old branch of the clothes store C & A on Oxford Street in London ( C & A had recently ceased trading, and the shop had been emptied ).

At the Oxford parliament in May 1177, Henry replaced William FitzAldelm and granted John his Irish lands, so becoming Lord of Ireland ( Dominus Hiberniae ) in 1177 when he was 10 years old, with the territory being known in English as the Lordship of Ireland.

He is eventually released but, still poor, falls in with an old Oxford acquaintance, Watson, who introduces him to his gambling crowd.

In 2007 a new examination of the remains by Dr Thomas Higham of Oxford University and Dr Roger Jacobi of the British Museum suggested they were 29, 000 years old.

Boaters protest about the proposed sale of the Jericho, Oxford | Jericho Boatyard on the Oxford Canal in 2005 near St Barnabas Church, Oxford | St Barnabas Church. During the 1960s pleasure boating began to grow in popularity and replace the old trading boats, After a fact-finding cruise on the canal, Barbara Castle ( Minister for Transport ) rejected a proposal for closure.

Quiney was in London again in June, 1601, and in November, when he rode up, as Shakespeare must often have done, by way of Oxford, High Wycombe, and Uxbridge, and home through Aylesbury and Banbury.

He was born on 12 April 1550 at the de Vere ancestral home, Castle Hedingham, the only son of John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford and his second wife, Margery Golding.

Oxford left Venice in March, intending to return home by way of Lyons and Paris ; although one later report has him as far south as Palermo in Sicily.

Biographers believe that Bacon was educated at home in his early years owing to poor health ( which plagued him throughout his life ), receiving tuition from John Walsall, a graduate of Oxford with a strong leaning towards Puritanism.

In the late 1950s, while writing Titus Alone, Peake's health subsequently declined into physical and mental incapacitation, and he died on 17 November 1968 at a care home run by his brother in law, at Burcot, near Oxford.

As a result, on 2 September 1939, three school girls, Margaret, Mary and Katherine, came to live at The Kilns in Risinghurst, Lewis ' home three miles east of Oxford city centre.

He returned home to the United States and joined a First-Century Christian evangelical movement known as the Oxford Group ( later known as Moral Re-Armament ).

In 1975, Clara Barton National Historic Site, located at 5801 Oxford Road, Glen Echo, Maryland, was established as a unit of the National Park Service at Barton's home, where she spent the last 15 years of her life.

The Evans ' returned home to rent a house in Oxford, abandoning their villa, which was turned into a hotel.

She died in a care home in Bampton, Oxfordshire and is buried in Wolvercote Cemetery, Oxford.

Macmillan then attended Summer Fields School, Oxford ( 1903 – 6 ), but his time at Eton College ( 1906 – 10 ) was blighted by recurrent illness, starting with a near-fatal attack of pneumonia in his first half ; he missed his final year after being invalided out, and had to be taught at home by private tutors ( 1910 – 11 ), notably Ronald Knox, who did much to instil his High Church Anglicanism.

From his home near Oxford, Buchan wrote to Mackenzie King: " The important question for me is, of course, the King's visit to Canada.

Later, he bought the bench from Oxford City Council and installed it in the garden of their home in Holland Park.

The community is also home to the CUNY Graduate Center which share the landmark former B. Altman Building with the New York Public Library Science, Industry and Business Library or SIBL and Oxford University Press.

Oxford is home to Benton County's only radio station.

Downtown is now home to a new headquarters for Oxford Networks, along with a $ 20 million upgrade in local fiber-optics, a new auto parts store, a campus for Andover College, the headquarters for Northeast Bank, a parking garage, and the newly renovated Maine Supply Co. building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

However, it was with his religious paintings that he became famous, initially The Light of the World ( 1851 – 1853, now in the chapel at Keble College, Oxford ; a later version ( 1900 ) toured the world and now has its home in St Paul's Cathedral.

Although the town is rich with history ( home to four buildings on the National Registry of Historical Places ) it does not hold the title of a Historical District unlike nearby Oxford and Wake Forest.

The town's history dates to 1761, when local legislator Samuel Benton built a plantation home and called it Oxford.

Oxford is home to Revlon, whose largest manufacturing facility is in Oxford.

The Beeches is student accommodation off Cowley Road, about 30 minutes walk from the main Linacre site and close to Oxford University's Old Road Campus, home to a number of biomedical research institutes.

After a two year period as the Oxford High School, it became a private home once more, belonging to Charlotte Cotton, former Provost of Worcester College.

Kellogg College was the first home for part-time students at the University of Oxford and many of the students who join the college continue to work in their professions while they study.

In May 2004, the college acquired a site for a new permanent home, located between Banbury Road and Bradmore Road, in the Norham Manor area of North Oxford, a 10 minute walk from Wellington Square, where the college was originally co-located with the Department for Continuing Education at Oxford University.