Osney

The university was thwarted in its plans to build a GBP28m book depository on Oxford's Osney Mead industrial estate after a long planning row.

Bodleian Library store to be built in Swindon, UK 2009

Oxford City Council has rejected development plans put forward by the University to build a book depository at Osney Mead to house the Bodleian's growing collections and to enable it to undertake a major redevelopment of the New Bodleian Library in Broad Street.

November 2007 2007

The Strategic Development Control Committee for Oxford City Council approved the application put forward by the University to build a book depository at Osney Mead.

September 2007 2007

Farther out were the ocher hills and the villages of Iffley and Osney Island and church spires everywhere.

Dream State Diane Roberts 2008

From hence, says the manuscript, the wall went to another gate, now quite down, opposite to the abovementioned; and leading to Osney, over another bridge; close to which joined that lofty and eminent mount, sometime crowned with an embattled tower.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 328, August 23, 1828 Various

St. Frideswide's, founded for canons regular at Castle Tower by Robert d'Oiley, and translated to Osney in 1149, became, as Cardinal Newman tells us, "a nursery for secular students, subject to the Chancellor's jurisdiction."

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

So deep was the impress of Osney upon the locality, and even upon the national Government, that Henry proposed, as in the case of

The Historic Thames Hilaire Belloc 1911

Abingdon is gone, all but a gateway, Reading all but a few ruined walls, Chertsey has utterly disappeared, so has Osney, so has

The Historic Thames Hilaire Belloc 1911

At any rate, whether Osney owed its magnificence to internal industry, to a wise expenditure, or to a severity of life which left a large surplus for ornament and extension, it was for 400 years the principal building upon the upper river, catching the eye from miles away up by

The Historic Thames Hilaire Belloc 1911

Benedictine foundations, and with the later foundation of Osney, the last link in the chain of abbeys which ran unbroken from stage to stage throughout the whole length of the river.

The Historic Thames Hilaire Belloc 1911