Norham Road is a road which lies east of the Banbury Road in central North Oxford, a suburb in the city of Oxford, England.Tanis Hinchcliffe, ''North Oxford'', Yale University Press, 1992. Pages 45, 85, 112, 119, 156, 191, 233–234. .

Location

The road is within the Norham Manor area. It consists mainly of large

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houses, many of three storeys above ground with a basement below. To the south of the road are Bradmore Road near the western end and

Fyfield Road Fyfield Road is a residential road in North Oxford, England, on the Norham Manor 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 University Parks opp ...

near the eastern end, both connecting with

Norham Gardens __NOTOC__ Norham Gardens is a residential road in central North Oxford, England. It adjoins the north end of Parks Road near the junction with Banbury Road, directly opposite St Anne's College. From here it skirts the north side of the Oxford ...

. To the north is Park Town. Pedestrian access at the eastern end leads north to the Dragon School, a preparatory school. The road continues to the east as Benson Place, which leads to

Lady Margaret Hall Lady Margaret Hall (LMH) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England, located on the banks of the River Cherwell at Norham Gardens in north Oxford and adjacent to the University Parks. The college is more formall ...

, one of the Oxford University colleges, originally for women.

History

The road is part of the Norham Manor estate within North Oxford, originally owned by

St John's College, Oxford St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford. Founded as a men's college in 1555, it has been coeducational since 1979.Communication from Michael Riordan, college archivist Its founder, Sir Thomas White, intended to pro ...

. It was developed by the college in the 1870s. The houses in the road were first leased between 1863 and 1905. William Wilkinson was the architect for many of the houses (numbers 14–26 and 30–35). Frederick Codd designed No. 13.

St Hugh's College St Hugh's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford. It is located on a site on St Margaret's Road, to the north of the city centre. It was founded in 1886 by Elizabeth Wordsworth as a women's college, and accepte ...

was founded as a women's college by Elizabeth Wordsworth, great-niece of the poet William Wordsworth, at 25 Norham Road in 1886, using money left to her by her father

Christopher Wordsworth Christopher Wordsworth (30 October 180720 March 1885) was an English intellectual and a bishop of the Anglican Church. Life Wordsworth was born in London, the youngest son of Christopher Wordsworth, Master of Trinity, who was the youngest b ...

(1807–1885), a Bishop of Lincoln. The college is now located in much larger premises on St Margaret's Road further north. The

Maison Française d'Oxford The Maison Française d'Oxford (MFO), known locally as simply Maison Française, is a French research centre in the humanities and social sciences and a member of the Network of French Research Institutes Established Abroad (IFRE) by the ...

is a French research institute based at 2–10 Norham Road.Contact us
, Maison Française d’Oxford, UK. It was originally set up by the University of Oxford and the University of Paris at the end of World War II. The current building was erected on an empty site on the north side of the road opposite Bradmore Road during 1961–2. It was designed by

Jacques Laurent Jacques Laurent or Jacques Laurent-Cély (6 January 1919 – 28 December 2000) was a French writer and journalist. He was born in Paris, the son of a barrister. During World War II, he fought with the Algerian Tirailleurs. Laurent was elect ...

with Brian Ring, Howard & Partners.

References

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