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Oxford is a borough in southern Chester County that was incorporated in 1833, growing up near the halfway point on the main road between Philadelphia and Baltimore.

Oxford was earlier known as Hood's Crossing after Hood's Tavern, then as Oxford Crossing and Oxford Village, and its post office was established in 1805.

Oxford's first burgess, Thomas Alexander, ran the general store said to house the oldest public library in Pennsylvania.

Oxford is the closest town to Lincoln University, founded in 1854 as the Ashmun Institute by Reverend John Miller Dickey and his wife Sarah Emlen Cresson.

Lincoln University, just outside Oxford, is recognized as the first degree-granting historically Black university in the United States, and poet Langston Hughes and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall were both students there.

Oxford had a population of 5,733 at the 2020 census, up from 5,077 in 2010.

Oxford counted 4,315 people in 1,703 households at the 2000 census, before two decades of steady growth.

The Oxford Historic District and the Oxford Hotel are both listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Oxford is served by the Oxford Area School District.