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What is the oldest in Britain?

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9y ago
Updated: 4/12/2022

The oldest university in Great Britain is the University of Oxford. The exact date of establishment is unknown but it ha been in existence since at least 1096.
The University of Oxford which has been teaching since 1096 and a university since around 1116, followed by The University of Cambridge which broke away from Oxford in 1209 Both in the towns of the same names in England, next oldest is St Andrews (1410) in Scotland and the oldest Welsh one is probably St Davids from 1822.

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