Bevington Road is a residential road in central
North Oxford, England.
The road runs between
Woodstock Road (opposite
Observatory Street
Observatory Street is a street in Oxford, England. It links at the eastern end Woodstock Road (opposite Bevington Road and St Anne's College and nearly opposite St Antony's College) in central North Oxford and at the western end Walton Str ...
) to the west and
Banbury Road to the east.
Winchester Road leads north from halfway along Bevington Road.
The road was previously known as Horse and Jockey Road.
A public house opposite the eastern end of the road on Woodstock Road on the corner with
St Bernard's Road
St Bernard's Road is a residential road in North Oxford, England, connecting the southern end of Kingston Road and the northern end of Walton Street, at the junction with Walton Well Road, to the west with Woodstock Road, opposite Bevingto ...
, called the ''Horse and Jockey'', was a reminder of this name. In the 1850s there was a plan to run a railway line just to the north of the road, but this never materialised.
The houses are in the traditional North Oxford brick-built
Victorian Gothic style, dating from 1865 to 1875.
Plots on the south side of the road were sold in August 1865 by
St John's College, which own much of the land in the area. Architects of the houses include
Frederick Codd and
William Wilkinson.
To the south is
St Anne's College, one of the former women's colleges of the
University of Oxford, fronting onto Woodstock Road and backing onto Banbury Road. All of the properties fronting onto the south side of Bevington Road are property of St Anne's College, and most are used for undergraduate accommodation.
To the north is
St Antony's College, a graduate college of the University, between Woodstock Road and Winchester Road.
The
Animal Behaviour Research Group
The Department of Zoology was a former science department in the University of Oxford's Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division founded in 1860. From 1 August 2022 its functionality merged with the Department of Plant Sciences to bec ...
of
Oxford University, begun in 1949 on the arrival in Oxford of
Niko Tinbergen, was located at 13 Bevington Road from 1961 to 1971. Prominent members of the group included
Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins (born 26 March 1941) is a British evolutionary biologist and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford and was Professor for Public Understanding of Science in the University of Oxford from 1995 to 2008. An ath ...
and
Desmond Morris. Dawkins conducted programming experiments on an early
PDP-8 mini-computer here.
The road is one-way to traffic from Banbury Road to Woodstock Road.
Gallery
File:Chapel of St Anthonys College, Oxford.jpg, The chapel of St Antony's College on the north side of Bevington Road
File:Wycliffe Hall from Bevington Road, Oxford.jpg, Wycliffe Hall viewed from the east end of Bevington Road
File:Bevington Road Rear, St Anne's College, University of Oxford.jpg, The rear of the houses on the south side of Bevington Road in St Anne's College
References
External links
Surface of Bevington Road FixMyStreet.
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Streets in Oxford
St Anne's College, Oxford
St Antony's College, Oxford