Plaques awarded
The following Oxfordshire Blue Plaques have been erected in the city and county. The locations are shown on the map on the international Open Plaques website.
Biographical details are linked to the names below; or follow this pointer (which continues at the foot of each page) to view them all alphabetically ![]()
Oxford City
- Sir Isaiah BERLIN (1909–1997), historian of ideas
Headington House, Oxford - John Henry BROOKES (1891–1975), artist, craftsman, educationist
195 The Slade, Headington - Jane BURDEN (Mrs William Morris) 1839–1914, Pre-Raphaelite Muse
St Helen’s Passage, off New College Lane, Oxford - Nirad C. CHAUDHURI (1897–1999), writer
20 Lathbury Road, Oxford - Captain Noel Godfrey CHAVASSE (1884–1917), V.C. and Bar
Magdalen College School, Oxford - Thomas COMBE (1796–1872) and Martha COMBE (1806–1893),
founders of St Barnabas, philanthropists and patrons of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
St Barnabas’ Church, Jericho, Oxford - Sarah Jane COOPER (1848–1932), marmalade maker
83 High Street, Oxford - CUTTESLOWE WALLS (1934–1959)
34 Aldrich Road, Oxford - Daniel EVANS (1769–1846) and Joshua SYMM (1809–1887), Oxford builders
34 St Giles’, Oxford - Gathorne Robert GIRDLESTONE (1881–1950), pioneering orthopaedic surgeon
Nuffield Staff Accommodation, 72–74 Old Road, Headington - J. S. HALDANE (1860–1936), physiologist
11 Crick Road, Oxford - Norman HEATLEY (1911–2004), biochemist, key member of the Oxford penicillin team
12 Oxford Road, Old Marston - Cecil JACKSON-COLE (1901–1979), philanthropist, founding member of Oxfam
17 Broad Street, Oxford - William KIMBER (1872–1961), Headington Quarry morris dancer and musician
42 St Anne’s Road, Headington, Oxford - Sir Hans KREBS (1900–1981), biochemist and Nobel Laureate
27 Abberbury Road, Iffley, Oxford - Edmund Arnold Greening LAMBORN (1877–1950),
Headmaster, local historian, ‘Man of letters’, benefactor
34 Oxford Road, Littlemore - C. S. LEWIS (1898–1963), scholar and author
The Kilns, Lewis Close, Headington Quarry, Oxford - Salvador de MADARIAGA, statesman, scholar and writer
Box Tree House, 3 St Andrew's Road, Old Headington, Oxford - William Richard MORFILL (1834–1909), first Professor of Russian and Slavonic Languages
42 Park Town, Oxford - William MORRIS, Viscount Nuffield (1877–1963), car-maker and philanthropist
16 James Street, Cowley, Oxford - MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) Scanner (1980)
King’s Centre, Osney Mead - Sir James MURRAY (1837–1915), Lexicographer and Editor of the OED
78 Banbury Road, Oxford - Paul NASH (1889–1946), artist
106 Banbury Road, Oxford - OXFORD PLAYHOUSE First auditorium (1923–1938) and former Big Game Museum
12 Woodstock Road, oXFORD - Walter PATER (1838–1894), author and scholar, and
Clara PATER (1841–1910), pioneer of women’s education
2 Bradmore Road, Oxford - Sir Francis SIMON (1893–1956), low-temperature physicist and philanthropist
10 Belbroughton Road, Oxford - Felicia SKENE (1821–1899), prison reformer and friend of the poor
34 St Michael’s Street, Oxford - John STANSFELD (1854–1939), parish priest, doctor
Former Rectory, Paradise Square, St Ebbe’s - STAR INN, Oxfordshire Yeomanry (1794)
34 Cornmarket Street (Clarendon Centre), Oxford - SUB-FOUR MINUTE MILE (1954)
Oxford University Sports Ground, Iffley Road, Oxford - Henry TAUNT (1842–1922), photographer
393 Cowley Road, Oxford - John Ronald Reuel TOLKIEN (1892–1973), author and scholar
20 Northmoor Road, Oxford - William TURNER ‘of Oxford’ (1789–1862), artist
16 St John Street, Oxford - Anthony à WOOD (1632–1695), antiquary
Postmasters’ Hall, Merton Street, Oxford
Cherwell
- Janet Heatley BLUNT (1859–1950), folk song and morris dance collector
Le Hall Place, Adderbury - William BUCKLAND (1784–1856), geologist, Dean of Westminster
The Old Rectory, Islip - KNIBB clockmakers — Samuel (1625–c.1670), Joseph (1640–1711),
John (1650– 1722) — at the Church Room, Claydon - Frank LASCELLES (1875–1934), Pageant Master
Manor House, Temple Mill Road, Sibford Gower, near Banbury - William POTTS (1868–1949), author and editor of the Banbury Guardian
16 Parson Street, Banbury - L. T. C. (Tom) ROLT (1910–1974), engineering historian, champion of Inland Waterways
Towpath entrance to Tooley’s Boatyard, Banbury - Sir Bernhard SAMUELSON (1820–1905), industrialist and educationist
Banbury Library (formerly The Mechanics Institute), Banbury
South Oxfordshire
- Sir William BLACKSTONE (1723–1780), judge and jurist
Wallingford Town Hall - Henry BODDINGTON (1813–1886), brewer
14 (54) Wellington Street, Thame (site of former workhouse) - Alfred CAMPOLI (1906–1991), Violinist
39 North street, Thame - Dame Agatha CHRISTIE (1890–1976) author, with her husband,
Sir Max MALLOWAN (1904–1978), archaeologist
Winterbrook House, Cholsey - James FIGG (1684–1734), Prize Fighter
The James Figg Pub (formerly The Greyhound Inn), Cornmarket, Thame - Humphrey GAINSBOROUGH (1718–1776), innovative engineer
Christ Church United Reformed Church, Reading Road, Henley-on-Thames - Elizabeth GOUDGE (1900–1984), writer
Rose Cottage, Peppard Common, near Henley-on-Thames - Jethro TULL (1674–1741), agriculturalist and inventor of the seed drill
19A The Street, Crowmarsh Gifford
Vale of White Horse
- John ALDER (c.1712–1780), lottery winner and public benefactor
39 Stert Street, Abingdon (formerly the Mitre Inn) - Sir John BETJEMAN (1906–1984), poet, writer and broadcaster
Garrards Farmhouse, Uffington - RIPON HALL, former Liberal Anglican Theological College (1933–1975)
Foxcombe Hall, Boar’s Hill - Daniel TURNER (1710–1798), Baptist Minister, theologian, hymn writer
35 Ock Street, Abingdon
West Oxfordshire
- Mont ABBOTT (1902–1989), carter, shepherd, storyteller
Biddy’s Bottom, Fulwell, Enstone - William CARTER (1852–1920), founder of Carterton
Town Hall, Carterton - Sir Stafford CRIPPS (1889–1952), statesman and benefactor
The Village Centre, Filkins - Charles EARLY (1824–1912), blanket manufacturer
Witney Mill - Barbara PYM (1913–1980), novelist
Barn Cottage, High Street, Finstock - James Allen SHUFFREY (1859–1939), artist
7 Narrow Hill, Woodgreen - William SMITH (1815–1875), blanket manufacturer
8 Bridge Street, Witney - Revd Edward STONE (1702–1768), discoverer of the active ingredient in aspirin
Former Hitchman Brewery, West Street, Chipping Norton - General Sir Montagu STOPFORD (1892–1971), Burma Campaign
Rock Hill, Chipping Norton - WESTFIELD HOUSE, refuge for Basque children (1937–1939)
Aston, near Bampton
