Hertford College, Oxford

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Hertford College ( HART-fərd) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. It is located on Catte Street in the centre of Oxford, directly opposite the main gate to the Bodleian Library. The college's Old and New Buildings Quadrangles are connected by the Bridge of Sighs, an Oxford landmark. The first foundation on the Hertford site began in the 1280s as Hart Hall and became a college in 1740 but was dissolved in 1816. In 1820, the site was taken over by Magdalen Hall, which had emerged around 1490 on a site adjacent to Magdalen College. In 1874, Magdalen Hall was incorporated as a college, reviving the name Hertford College. In 1974, Hertford was part of the first group of all-male Oxford colleges to admit women. There are around 600 students at the college at any one time, comprising undergraduates, graduates and visiting students from overseas. Alumni of the college's predecessor institutions include William Tyndale, John Donne, Thomas Hobbes, Jonathan Swift and...

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