Wellington Square is a

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in central

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, a continuation northwards of St John Street. In the centre of the square is a small park, Wellington Square Gardens, owned by the

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. A bicycle route passes into

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through the pedestrian area at the front of the University Offices in the north-east of the square. The street name is used to refer

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to the

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of the University of Oxford, which in 1975 moved from the

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to new buildings with an address in the square but built at that time, along with graduate student accommodation, along the adjacent

. The university's Department for Continuing Education is in the square in

Rewley House Rewley House, located on the corner of Wellington Square and St John Street in the city of Oxford, England, is the primary base of Oxford University's Department for Continuing Education (previously the Department of External Studies). Histor ...

, which was designed in 1872 by the Oxford architect E.G. Bruton, who also laid out the square. This was the initial location of

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. Number 47 houses the administrative offices of the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, as well as the university's Slavic and Modern Greek collections. Barnett House (named after the social reformer

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and his wife Henrietta), home of the

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is found along one side of the square. The

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used a studio of Radio Oxford in the square.

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