Littlemore

infobox UK place
country = England
official_name= Littlemore
latitude= 51.720
longitude= -1.227
shire_district= Oxfordshire
shire_county = Oxfordshire
region= South East England
post_town= OXFORD
postcode_district= OX4
postcode_area= OX
civil_parish= Littlemore
population= 1494 [Census, 2001]
dial_code= 01865
os_grid_reference=
constituency_westminster=Oxford East

Littlemore is an Oxfordshire village with a parish council that also represents parts of Rose Hill. It is located approximately 2.5 miles south-east of the city centre of Oxford, England — between Rose Hill, Blackbird Leys, Cowley, and Sandford-on-Thames.

Notable Residents

John Henry Newman

Littlemore is now probably best known for the work of Cardinal Newman, who, while a member of the Church of England, worked to have a church built for the residents of Littlemore (the first stone was laid by his mother): this is now Saint Mary and Saint Nicholas. He then took up orders with the Roman Catholic Church (a sensation at the time), and was accepted into the faith by Father Dominic Barberi, a prominent Passionist active in England at the time. Newman was declared venerable by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in 1991, and is now on his way to being beatified and canonised. An order of nuns are also resident in Littlemore and live in the aptly named Newman Rooms in College Lane.

Trade unionist Henry Broadhurst was born in the village.

Littlemore Hospital

Dominating the South-East side of Littlemore on Sandford Road is the Littlemore Mental Health Centre, which includes Ashurst Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) [ [http://www.obmh.nhs.uk/services/a-z/by-location.aspx#o A-Z of services by location - OBMH ] ] .

Across the road is the former Littlemore Asylum building, founded in 1846 [ [http://www.marshallsgroup.com/littlemore.htm Marshalls Oxfordshire Places - Littlemore ] ] , which has been converted to private dwellings and renamed "St George's Manor". Mandelbrote Drive, which services the estate, is named for the association with Bertram Mandelbrote, whose pioneering work in the area of the therapeutic community [ [http://www.therapeuticcommunities.org/journal-fromarchives3.htm THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITIES. The Journal of the Association of Therapeutic Communities. From the Archives 3 ] ] ultimately lead to the move to new accommodation and sale of the building to private developers.

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