- Source: Woodstock Road, Oxford
Woodstock Road is a major road in Oxford, England, running from St Giles' in the south, north towards Woodstock through the leafy suburb of North Oxford. To the east is Banbury Road, which it meets at the junction with St Giles'.
Buildings
At the southern end, just north of Little Clarendon Street, are the Oratory Church of St Aloysius Gonzaga and Somerville College. Opposite Little Clarendon Street is St Giles' Church, built in 1120 and consecrated in 1200. Further north are Green Templeton College, St Anne's College and St Antony's College. Also on Woodstock Road is St Philip and St James Church, now the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies (OCMS) and St. Edward's School which is a prominent feature halfway down. Woodstock Road Baptist Church is an evangelical church on the corner with Beech Croft Road. Jack FM and Jack 2, local radio broadcasters covering Oxfordshire, are based at 270 Woodstock Road, along with the local TV channel SIX TV.
The road is classified A4144.
Notable residents
Former residents include:
Norman Davis, OBE, FBA (1913–89), Merton Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford
Sir Hugh Elliott, OBE (1913–1989), ornithologist
Lord Redcliffe-Maud, GCB, CBE (1906–1982), civil servant, diplomat, and Master of University College, Oxford, and Lady Redcliffe-Maud (1904–1993), pianist
Egon Wellesz, CBE (1885–1974), composer and musicologist
Rowan Atkinson and Richard Curtis, lived together as students
Dorothy Hodgkin, chemist, awarded a Nobel Prize for advances in protein crystallography, lived at 94 Woodstock Road from 1957 to 1968
Bill Clinton lived on Leckford Road, just off Woodstock Road, during his time as a student at Oxford.
Adjoining roads in North Oxford
Banbury Road
Bainton Road
Beech Croft Road
Bevington Road
Blandford Avenue
Canterbury Road
Farndon Road
Frenchay Road
Lathbury Road
Leckford Road
Little Clarendon Street
Moreton Road
Observatory Street
Plantation Road
Polstead Road
Rawlinson Road
St Bernard's Road
St Giles' Street, Oxford
St Margaret's Road
South Parade
Staverton Road
See also
Belsyre Court
Oxford Oratory
St Edward's School, Oxford
References
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