Pusey Street links the wide thoroughfare of St Giles' Street (opposite St John's College) to the east with St John Street to the west in the St John Street area of central

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. Pusey Street, formerly called Alfred Street, was renamed in honour of

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in 1926. The renaming also avoided confusion with another

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to the south. The street is bordered by two educational establishments of

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. On the north side of the street is the

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. This includes a large white building on the corner with St Giles' called Wheeler Robinson House, the ground floor of which is occupied by an

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bookshop. To the south are

St Cross College St Cross College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Founded in 1965, St Cross is an all-graduate college with gothic and traditional-style buildings on a central site in St Giles', just south of Pusey Street. It a ...

and

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, founded in 1884. Pusey House Chapel is on the corner with St Giles'. Pusey Lane off Pusey Street was renamed from Alfred Lane at the same time as Pusey Street was renamed.

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manufactured the

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car here from 1924 until the move to larger premises in

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, in September 1925.

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