Moreton Road is a residential road in the

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suburb of

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, Oxfordshire,

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Location

The road runs east–west. 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' at the south end, north towards Banbury through the leafy suburb of North Oxford and Summertown, with its local shopping centre. Parallel and to the west is the ...

(A4165), the two major arterial roads out of

to the north. The road continues east slightly to the north on the

Marston Ferry Road Marston Ferry Road is a link road in north Oxford, England. It is named after the ferry that used to cross the River Cherwell at the village of Marston from at least 1279. The road links the Banbury Road in North Oxford just south of Summ ...

(B4495). To the south is

Lathbury Road Lathbury Road is a short residential road in north Oxford, 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 ...

and to the north is Beech Croft Road. It lies to the north of the original

development by St John's College, Oxford but since it is south of Summertown it is often considered to be part of Central North Oxford, with high house prices. On the corner of Moreton Road at 153 Banbury Road, there was a Carmelite Convent until 1987. The main site of St Clare's, an independent international boarding school founded in 1953, is also located at 139 Banbury Road, between Lathbury Road and Moreton Road.

Notable people

Frederick Mason Brewer Frederick Mason Brewer CBE FRIC (1903 – 11 February 1963) was an English chemist. He was Head of the Inorganic Chemistry Inorganic chemistry deals with synthesis and behavior of inorganic and organometallic compounds. This field covers c ...

CBE FRIC (1903–1963), Head of the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

, and

Mayor of Oxford The earliest recorded Mayor of Oxford in England was Laurence Kepeharm (1205–1207?). On 23 October 1962 the city was granted the honour of electing a Lord Mayor. Notable figures who have been Lord Mayor of Oxford include J. N. L. Baker (196 ...

during 1959–60, lived at 6 Moreton Road. The

classical scholar Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...

and

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University College, Oxford University College (in full The College of the Great Hall of the University of Oxford, colloquially referred to as "Univ") is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. It has a claim to being the oldest college of the unive ...

George Cawkwell George Law Cawkwell (25 October 1919 – 18 February 2019) was a classical scholar who specialised in the ancient history of Greece in the 4th century BC. Life and career Born in Auckland, New Zealand, Cawkwell was educated at King's College, ...

(1919–2019), lived in Moreton Road.

In popular culture

Moreton Road features in the eponymous biography about the Australian composer

Peter Sculthorpe Peter Joshua Sculthorpe (29 April 1929 – 8 August 2014) was an Australian composer. Much of his music resulted from an interest in the music of countries neighboring Australia as well as from the impulse to bring together aspects of Aborigin ...

, who won a scholarship to study at

Oxford University Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. The city is home to th ...

, and also in the novel ''Restless'' (winner of the Novel Award in the 2006 Costa Book Awards) by William Boyd.

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