Lathbury Road is a short residential road in north

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, England. The road runs approximately east–west with a small curve halfway along. At the western end of the road is a junction with Woodstock Road (A4144) and at the eastern end is a junction with

Banbury Road Banbury Road is a major arterial road in Oxford, England, running from St Giles' Street, Oxford, St Giles' at the south end, north towards Banbury through the leafy suburb of North Oxford and Summertown, Oxford, Summertown, with its local shoppi ...

(A4165), the two major arterial roads out of

to the north. To the south is

Staverton Road Staverton Road is a residential road in North Oxford, England. Location The road runs east–west with a gentle curve halfway along. At the western end of the road is a junction with Woodstock Road, Oxford, Woodstock Road (A4144) and at the ea ...

and to the north is

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. It lies to the north of the original

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development by

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but since it is south of Summertown it is often considered to be part of Central North Oxford, with high house prices. The

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author and broadcaster

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(1897–1999) lived at 20 Lathbury Road from 1982 to 1999. A

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was installed by the

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in 2008. The jurist and international lawyer Sir

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(1904–1981) lived at 6 Lathbury Road. The historian

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(1918–1991) lived in Lathbury Road with his wife Eleanor. The philologist and

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authority, Sir Malcolm Pasley (1926-2004) lived at number 25 with his wife Virginia. Number 26, Elmswood, was built by the Arts and Craft architect

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fo
Ulric Vernon Herford
(1866-1938). From a Unitarian family, Herford was consecrated as a bishop in th
Syro-Chaldean (Nestorian) Church
an

Elmswood has a chapel and was more recently occupied by the linguist Maurice Pope (1926-2019). Other Lathbury road residents have included

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and

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In the early 1980s,

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, a

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college located in Williamstown,

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, United States, purchased a group of houses, today known as the Ephraim Williams House, on Banbury Road and Lathbury Road. The Williams-Exeter Programme was founded in 1985. Since that time, 26 undergraduate students from Williams College spend their junior year at

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each year as members of the college. ''The Nursery'' (for 2–5-year-old children) is located at 17 Lathbury Road. The main premises of St Clare's, an independent international

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founded in 1953, is also located at 139 Banbury Road, just to the north of Lathbury Road.

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