Littlemore

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Littlemore
Littlemore shown within Oxfordshire
Population	1494 ^[1]
Parish	Littlemore
District	Oxfordshire
Shire county	Oxfordshire
Region	South East
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	OXFORD
Postcode district	OX4
Dialling code	01865
Police	Thames Valley
Fire	Oxfordshire
Ambulance	South Central
European Parliament	South East England
UK Parliament	Oxford East
List of places: UK • England • Oxfordshire

Coordinates: 51°43′12″N 1°13′37″W / 51.72, -1.227

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.

[edit] 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 SS Mary and Nicholas. He then took up orders with the Roman Catholic Church (a sensation at the time), he 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.