Cowley Oxfordshire's neighbours are Rose Hill and Blackbird Leys to the south, Headington to the north and the villages of Horspath and Garsington across fields to the east.
| FactSnippet No. 1,618,243 |
14 Facts About Cowley Oxfordshire
1.
2.
Internationally, Cowley Oxfordshire is best known for its automotive industry - historically it was the home of the car manufacturer Morris, which has now evolved into Mini.
| FactSnippet No. 1,618,244 |
3.
Cowley Oxfordshire was a manor from Medieval times, and a 16th-century manor house stood on Oxford Road near the corner with Hollow Way.
| FactSnippet No. 1,618,245 |
4.
Cowley Oxfordshire later renamed it again as John Allen and Sons, and diversified into manufacturing other agricultural and horticultural machinery including the successful Allen Scythe powered by a small Villiers petrol engine.
| FactSnippet No. 1,618,246 |
5.
Cowley Oxfordshire area was transformed after 1912 when William Morris bought the former Oxford Military College and moved Morris Motors Limited into it from its former premises in Oxford.
| FactSnippet No. 1,618,247 |
6.
Cowley Oxfordshire expanded into "The Old Tin Shed" in 1914 and then into a huge complex of purpose-built production lines in Cowley, as Morris pioneered Henry Ford-style mass production in the UK.
| FactSnippet No. 1,618,248 |
7.
The Great Western Railway, which had taken over the Wycombe Railway, opened a station called Morris Cowley Oxfordshire to serve some of the thousands of workers commuting to the factory.
| FactSnippet No. 1,618,249 |
8.
When BMW sold the Rover Group they decide to retain the Pressed Steel Fisher site and transfer the Mini from Longbridge to Cowley Oxfordshire, enabling the Longbridge site to continue to produce all the Rover products.
| FactSnippet No. 1,618,250 |
9.
Cowley Oxfordshire is an ethnically diverse community, with significant black and South Asian communities.
| FactSnippet No. 1,618,251 |
10.
Temple Cowley Oxfordshire Pools in Temple Road was a public swimming and gymnasium complex run by Oxford City Council which closed in December 2014 for redevelopment as housing.
| FactSnippet No. 1,618,252 |
11.
Schools serving Cowley Oxfordshire include Greyfriars Catholic School and Oxford Spires Academy.
| FactSnippet No. 1,618,253 |
12.
Cowley Oxfordshire is a principal setting in the novel The Alteration by Kingsley Amis, set in an alternative reality where the Protestant Reformation never occurred.
| FactSnippet No. 1,618,254 |
13.
Cowley Oxfordshire was the site of the Holy Victory in the War of English Succession.
| FactSnippet No. 1,618,255 |
14.
Cowley Oxfordshire is referenced in the lyrics of the song "Zorbing" by the British alternative indie folk band Stornoway: "Been Zorbing through the streets of Cowley Oxfordshire".
| FactSnippet No. 1,618,256 |