Thornton's Bookshop (locally known as Thornton's) was the oldest university bookshop in Oxford, England.

[1][2] It was founded in 1835 by Joseph Thornton (1808–1891) in Magdalen Street.

[3] From 1870, the bookshop was located at 11 Broad Street (opposite Balliol College), continued as a family business by five generations of the Thornton family[4] and from 1983 by the Meeuws family, but closed at the end of 2002.

[3] The shop premises on Broad Street were frequently used for television adaptations like the final Inspector Morse episode, The Remorseful Day.

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