Oxford

Oxford is a British university city in the country of Oxfordshire, England, and is home to the University of Oxford, the oldest university in the world.According to the 2007 census, its population is 153,000 inhabitants, approximately.

It is known as the "city of dreaming spiers", a term coined by Matthew Arnold to describe the harmonious architecture of the university buildings. It has always been a matter of much interest the occasionally strained relationship between "town and academia,"