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Norham Gardens is a residential road in central
North Oxford
North Oxford is a suburban part of the city of Oxford in England. It was owned for many centuries largely by St John's College, Oxford and many of the area's Victorian houses were initially sold on leasehold by the College.
Overview
The le ...
,
England. It adjoins the north end of
Parks Road
Parks Road is a road in Oxford, England, with several Oxford University colleges along its route. It runs north–south from the Banbury Road and Norham Gardens at the northern end, where it continues into Bradmore Road, to the junction with ...
near the junction with
Banbury Road, directly opposite
St Anne's College. From here it skirts the north side of the
Oxford University Parks, ending up at
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 forma ...
, a college of
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 the ...
that was formerly for women only, backing onto the
River Cherwell
The River Cherwell ( or ) is a tributary of the River Thames in central England. It rises near Hellidon, Northamptonshire and flows southwards for to meet the Thames at Oxford in Oxfordshire.
The river gives its name to the Cherwell local ...
. Public access to the Parks is available from the two ends of the road. To the north of the road are
Bradmore Road near the western end and
Fyfield Road near the eastern end.
A number of houses in Norham Gardens are now used by the
University of Oxford
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, endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019)
, budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20)
, chancellor ...
(mainly the Department of Education) and its colleges.
St Edmund Hall's Graduate Centre is housed in several buildings on this road. One house, previously run by the
Society of the Sacred Heart
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, is now accommodation and teaching space for
St Benet's Hall.
History
Norham Gardens was developed from 1860 onwards as part of the
Norham Manor housing estate. Most of its houses are large
Victorian Gothic
Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...
villas. Nos. 1, 5, 7, 11 and 13 were designed by the architect
William Wilkinson and nos. 3 and 9 are by
Charles Buckeridge. The Sanskrit scholar,
Max Müller
Friedrich Max Müller (; 6 December 1823 – 28 October 1900) was a German-born philologist and Orientalist, who lived and studied in Britain for most of his life. He was one of the founders of the western academic disciplines of India ...
lived at No. 7 from 1848 until his death in 1900. When he was
Regius Professor of Medicine (1905-1919), Sir
William Osler lived at No. 13 with his wife, Grace, who remained there until her death in 1928. Osler and his friends nicknamed the house "The Open Arms" as the Oslers were very sociable, particularly to Canadians and Americans visiting Oxford, Osler having been born in Canada and having worked in both Canada and the US before moving to Oxford.
Literature
The children's fantasy novel ''The House in Norham Gardens'' (set in a fictional No. 40) was written by
Penelope Lively and published in 1970.
[ Penelope Lively, ]
The House in Norham Gardens
'. Heinemann Heinemann may refer to:
* Heinemann (surname)
* Heinemann (publisher), a publishing company
* Heinemann Park, a.k.a. Pelican Stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
See also
* Heineman
* Jamie Hyneman
James Franklin Hyneman (born Se ...
/ Dutton, 1974. ; . Also published by Mammoth
A mammoth is any species of the extinct elephantid genus ''Mammuthus'', one of the many genera that make up the order of trunked mammals called proboscideans. The various species of mammoth were commonly equipped with long, curved tusks and, ...
, 1994. .
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Streets in Oxford
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
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