Fyfield Road is a residential road in

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, England, on the

Norham Manor The Norham Manor estate is a residential suburb in Oxford, England. It is part of central North Oxford. To the north is Park Town with its crescents, to the east is the River Cherwell, to the south are the University Parks and to the west is ...

estate. At the northern end of the road is a junction with Norham Road and at the southern end is a junction with Norham Gardens, was the

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opposite. Halfway along the road, Crick Road leads west to Bradmore Road. To the east is Lady Margaret Hall, one of the colleges of

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. Fyfield Lodge is located at 13 Fyfield Road, more recently divided into five flats.

History and residents

The Norham Manor estate where Fyfield Road is located was originally owned by St John's College, Oxford. The name of the road was taken from Fyfield in Berkshire (now in Oxfordshire), where the college held the manor. Houses in the road were first leased by the college between 1878 and 1887. They were designed by

Frederick Codd Frederick Codd (born 1832 in East Dereham) was a British Gothic Revival architect and speculative builder who designed and built many Victorian houses in North Oxford, England. Born in 1832 in East Dereham in Norfolk., he was initially based ...

(Nos 1, 13, and 14), William Wilkinson (Nos 2–4), and

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& Messenger (Nos 5–12). The houses are in the traditional North Oxford Victorian style of brick construction. R. G. Collingwood (1889–1943), philosopher,

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, and

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of Pembroke College, Oxford, lived at 5 Fyfield Road with his wife Ethel.

Grace Eleanor Hadow Grace Eleanor Hadow OBE (9 December 1875 in Cirencester, England – 19 January 1940, Marylebone, London) was an author, principal of what would become St Anne's College, Oxford and vice-chairman of the National Federation of Women's Institu ...

(1875–1940), author and Principal of St Anne's College, Oxford (1929–40), lived at 7 Fyfield Road in 1936. The historian

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CBE FBA (1874–1928) lived at 11 Fyfield Road with his wife and three children, one of whom, later another historian

Ralph Henry Carless Davis Ralph Henry Carless Davis (7 October 1918 – 12 March 1991) was a British historian and educator specialising in the European Middle Ages. Davis was born and died in Oxford. He was a leading exponent of strict documentary analysis and interpre ...

(1918–1991), was born at the house on 7 October 1918. Rev. Arthur Acland, a

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at Christ Church, Oxford, leased 13 Fyfield Road in 1878. Joan Gili (1907–1998), a

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antiquarian book-seller, publisher and translator, lived at 14 Fyfield Road with his family from 1945 to 1969.

References

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History and residents

See also

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