Canal Street is a residential street in

Jericho Jericho ( ; ar, أريحا ; he, יְרִיחוֹ ) is a Palestinian city in the West Bank. It is located in the Jordan Valley, with the Jordan River to the east and Jerusalem to the west. It is the administrative seat of the Jericho Gove ...

, an inner suburb of

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, northwest of the city centre. Jericho Street Fair 2012

The annual Jericho Street Fair takes place in Canal Street, normally close to 11 June, the feast day of the patron saint

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Location

Canal Street runs northwest–southeast, with the

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just to the west, hence the name. The street is dominated by the

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of St Barnabas Church. Towards the southern end is a junction with Great Clarendon Street, a major thoroughfare in Jericho. The Jericho Community Centre, run by the Jericho Community Association, is located in Canal Street. Canal boats can be rented on the canal at Canal Street. The Old Bookbinders Ale House is a

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in the street that serves

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. A

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is also located here and

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s can be hired on the canal. To the south are the grounds of

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History

Previously the Jericho area was part of the

Walton Manor Walton Manor is a residential suburb in Oxford, England. It is north of Jericho and the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter and forms part of North Oxford. The street layout and many of the area's buildings date from the mid-19th century. It was deve ...

farm owned by St John's College, Oxford. The Oxford Canal was opened in 1790 and the street was named Canal Street around 1870. St Barnabas Church was consecrated in 1869. The Old Bookbinders Ale House pub in the street was also established in 1869. There used to be a ferry (with ferry house) and coal wharves close to the north end of Canal Street. Flooding has always been an issue, due to the proximity of the canal. Although most of the houses in the street are small two-storey terraced houses, Canal Street is now a popular inner-city residential street with high property prices due to its convenient central location.

Fiction

"Canal Reach", in actuality Combe Road, off Canal Street leading to the canal, was used as the location of a murder in ''

The Dead of Jericho ''The Dead of Jericho'', published in 1981, is a work of English detective fiction by Colin Dexter. It is the fifth novel in the Inspector Morse series. In 1987 it was adapted as the first episode of the highly successful television series insp ...

'', the fifth

Inspector Morse Detective Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse, GM, is the eponymous fictional character in the series of detective novels by British author Colin Dexter. On television, he appears in the 33-episode drama series '' Inspector Morse'' (1987–2000), ...

novel by

Colin Dexter Norman Colin Dexter (29 September 1930 – 21 March 2017) was an English crime writer known for his ''Inspector Morse'' series of novels, which were written between 1975 and 1999 and adapted as an ITV television series, ''Inspector Morse'', fr ...

, published in 1981. The area was used as a location for the adaptation in the ''

'' television series starring

John Thaw John Edward Thaw, (3 January 1942 – 21 February 2002) was an English actor who appeared in a range of television, stage, and cinema roles. He starred in the television series '' Inspector Morse'' as title character Detective Chief Inspector ...

. Morse and Lewis discussed the case together at the Bookbinders Arms (now the Old Bookbinders Ale House) in ''The Dead of Jericho'' episode.

Gallery

File:Jericho OldBookbinders.jpg, The Old Bookbinders public house in Canal Street File:Jericho Street Fair.JPG, Jericho Street Fair, in Canal Street File:Mick Clack at the Jericho Street Fair.JPG, Music outside the Old Bookbinders pub in Canal Street

References

External links

* 1870 establishments in England Streets in Oxford Oxford Canal {{Oxfordshire-geo-stub