Carfax may refer to:
Places
*
Carfax, Oxford
Carfax is the junction of St Aldate's (south), Cornmarket Street (north), Queen Street (west) and the High Street (east) in Oxford, England. It is considered to be the centre of the city. The name "Carfax" derives from the Latin ''quadrifurcus ...
, England
**
Carfax Conduit, a water conduit that supplied Oxford from 1617 until the 19th century
**
Carfax College
Carfax College, previously known as Carfax Tutorial Establishment is a registered independent school in England, specializing in providing one-to-one and very-small-group tuition in all academic subjects to pupils of all ages. It is an exami ...
, an independent school in Oxford
* Carfax, the centre of
Horsham, West Sussex, England
NASCAR racing
* Carfax 250, now
Irish Hills 250
* Carfax 400, now
Pure Michigan 400
Other uses
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Carfax (company)
CARFAX, Inc. is an American company that provides vehicle data to individuals and businesses. Its best-known product is the CARFAX Vehicle History Report. Other products include vehicle listings, car valuation, and buying and maintenance advice. ...
, a commercial web-based service that supplies vehicle history reports
* Carfax Gallery (or Carfax & Co) in London, co-founded by
William Rothenstein
Sir William Rothenstein (29 January 1872 – 14 February 1945) was an English painter, printmaker, draughtsman, lecturer, and writer on art. Emerging during the early 1890s, Rothenstein continued to make art right up until his death. Though he c ...
* Carfax, or Carfax Abbey, fictional home in England of
Count Dracula
Count Dracula () is the title character of Bram Stoker's 1897 gothic horror novel ''Dracula''. He is considered to be both the prototypical and the archetypal vampire in subsequent works of fiction. Aspects of the character are believed by some ...
* Carfax, A fictional town in
Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth ar ...
and home of the narrator in
The Rats in the Walls
"The Rats in the Walls" is a short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft. Written in August–September 1923, it was first published in '' Weird Tales'', March 1924.
Plot
In 1923, an American named Delapore, the last descendant of the De la ...
*Carfax, a project of artist/musician
Mikey Georgeson
*Carfax, leading character in ''
Other People's Sins, a 1931 British crime film
See also
* "
The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax
"The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax" is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is one of the eight stories in the cycle collected as '' His Last Bow'' (1917), and one of the few stories in which ...
", a Sherlock Holmes story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
* ''
The Clever Mrs. Carfax'', a 1917 American comedy silent film
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