St John's College playing field, Bainton Road, Oxford

Bainton Road is a residential road in north

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, England. The road runs south–north and then west–east, skirting around the west and north sides of the St John's College playing field. At the eastern end is a junction with Woodstock Road (A4144), a major arterial road out of Oxford to the north. At the southern end is a junction with

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. The road continues south as

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. To the west is the

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. N. W. Harrison, surveyor to the

North Oxford North Oxford is a suburban part of the city of Oxford in England. It was owned for many centuries largely by St John's College, Oxford and many of the area's Victorian houses were initially sold on leasehold by the College. Overview The le ...

building estate, laid out the road around the west and north side of the cricket ground of St John's College. The houses in Bainton Road were first leased between 1906 and 1931.

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made car radiators in a factory on Bainton Road. In September 1925, the

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factory moved from the cramped facilities at Alfred Lane (

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off

Pusey Street Pusey Street links the wide thoroughfare of St Giles' Street (opposite St John's College) to the east with St John Street to the west in the St John Street area of central Oxford, England. Pusey Street, formerly called Alfred Street, was ...

since around 1927) in central Oxford to join the Radiator Branch at Bainton Road, within a partitioned area of the premises. The

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car was manufactured at both sites between 1924 and 1927. The

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was also based in Bainton Road. The New Zealand writer, journalist and editor

John Mulgan John Alan Edward Mulgan (31 December 1911 – 26 April 1945) was a New Zealand writer, journalist and editor, and the elder son of journalist and writer Alan Mulgan. His influence on New Zealand literature and identity grew in the years afte ...

(1911–1945) lived at 5 Bainton Road. The Welsh academic, novelist and critic

Raymond Williams Raymond Henry Williams (31 August 1921 – 26 January 1988) was a Welsh socialist writer, academic, novelist and critic influential within the New Left and in wider culture. His writings on politics, culture, the media and literature contribu ...

(1921–1988) bought 47 Bainton Road from a colleague in 1960. The physicist, philosopher and author

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has lived at 57 Bainton Road.

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Streets in Oxford St John's College, Oxford {{England-road-stub

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