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==Related terms <span class="anchor" id="Camford"></span>== Other portmanteaus have been coined that extend the term ''Oxbridge'', with different degrees of recognition: The term ''Loxbridge''<ref name=talkscam>{{cite web|author=Anon|year=2018|url=http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/98671|website=talks.cam.ac.uk|title=The Loxbridge Triangle: Integrating the East-West Arch into the London Mega-region|publisher=University of Cambridge}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/OC340952|publisher=[[Companies House]]|location=London|website=companieshouse.gov.uk|title=Loxbridge Limited}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Loxbridge tutoring|website=loxbridge.com|url=http://www.loxbridge.com|access-date=21 January 2021|archive-date=10 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200810081110/http://www.loxbridge.com/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=loxbridge>{{cite journal | author=Morgan, K. J. | title= The research assessment exercise in English universities, 2001 | journal=Higher Education | volume=48 | pages=461–482 | year=2004 | doi= 10.1023/B:HIGH.0000046717.11717.06 | issue=4|jstor= 4151567| s2cid= 145505001}}</ref> is also used referring to the [[Golden triangle (universities)|golden triangle]] of London, Oxford, and Cambridge. It was also adopted as the name of the [[Ancient history|Ancient History]] conference now known as ''AMPAH''.<ref name="AMPAH">{{cite web | title=AMPAH 2003: Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Ancient History (formerly also known as LOxBridge) | url=http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/classics/postgraduate/ampah/ | access-date=2008-04-13 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070711222341/http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/classics/postgraduate/ampah/ | archive-date=11 July 2007 }}</ref> [[Doxbridge]] is another example of this, referring to [[Durham University|Durham]], Oxford and Cambridge.<ref name="doxbridge3">{{cite web|title=Doxbridge: a chip on our collective shoulders?|url=https://www.palatinate.org.uk/doxbridge-a-chip-on-our-collective-shoulders/|work=Palatinate|date=6 November 2014|access-date=2017-03-10}}</ref><ref name="doxbridge4">{{cite web|title=Debate: Rather be at Oxbridge than Doxbridge?|url=http://thetab.com/uk/cambridge/2012/01/16/rather-be-at-oxbridge-than-doxbridge-3428|publisher=[[The Tab]]|website=thetab.com|date=16 January 2016|access-date=2017-03-10}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://thetab.com/uk/durham/2015/10/16/doxbridge-thing-asked-oxbridge-students-20761|title=Is Doxbridge a thing? We asked Oxbridge students|date=2015-10-16|work=The Tab|access-date=2018-09-19|language=en-GB}}</ref> ''Doxbridge'' was also used for an annual inter-collegiate sports tournament between some of the colleges of Durham, Oxford, Cambridge and [[University of York|York]].<ref name="doxbridge">{{cite web|title=The University Sports Tour for Easter 2008 |url=http://www.doxbridge.co.uk/index.html |access-date=2008-04-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080402051845/http://www.doxbridge.co.uk/index.html |archive-date=2 April 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ''Woxbridge'' is the name of the annual conference between the business schools of [[University of Warwick|Warwick]], Oxford and Cambridge.<ref>{{cite web|title=Woxbridge 2011|url=http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/wbs/conf/woxbridge2011/|work=Conference Website}}</ref> When the [[University of St Andrews]] topped the 2023 UK universities ranking in ''[[The Guardian]]'', the top three institutions were labelled ''Stoxbridge'' to reflect the new order.<ref name="stoxbridge">{{cite web|title=Forget Oxbridge: St Andrews knocks top universities off perch|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/sep/24/stoxbridge-st-andrews-overtakes-oxford-cambridge-guardian-university-guide|work=The Guardian|access-date=2022-12-09|date=2022-09-24}}</ref> Thackeray's ''[[Pendennis]]'', which introduced the term ''Oxbridge'', also introduced ''Camford'' as another combination of the university names – "he was a Camford man and very nearly got the English Prize Poem" – but this term has never achieved the same degree of usage as ''Oxbridge''. Camford is, however, used as the name of a fictional university city in the [[Sherlock Holmes]] story ''[[The Adventure of the Creeping Man]]'' (1923).
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