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Queen's Lane is a historic street in central

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, named after Queen's College, to the south and west. St Edmund Hall, a constituent college of the

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, is located on the southern end of this street.

Location

At the southeastern end of Queen's Lane is a junction onto the

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. To the west is Queen's College and to the east on the corner is the

Queen's Lane Coffee House Queen's Lane Coffee House is a historic coffee house established by Cirques Jobson, a Levantine Jew from Syria. Dating back to 1654, it claims to be the oldest continually serving coffee house in Europe although, it has only been on the present ...

, a historic coffee house dating from 1654, claimed (along with others) to be the oldest in Oxford. Just north of the Queen's Lane Coffee House, on the eastern side of the lane, is the main entrance to St Edmund Hall. The 12th-century church of St Peter-in-the-East, which was

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in the 1970s and is now the library of St Edmund Hall, is situated to the north of the college's entrance. There is a bend in the lane about halfway along, following the boundaries of the surrounding colleges. The lane is largely surrounded by high stone walls with few windows, but with some good examples of

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s, a feature of Oxford college architecture. At the north-western end, the lane continues as

New College Lane New College Lane is a historic street in central Oxford, England, named after New College, one of the older Oxford colleges, adjacent to the north. In 2010, New College Lane was named Britain's fourth most picturesque street, as part of G ...

, named after New College to the north of Queen's Lane. There is a barrier in the road at this point to prevent through traffic.

History

The part of the lane near the High Street was formerly called St Edmund Hall Lane in the 18th century. Past the bend at the middle of the current Queen's Lane it was called Torald Street. By 1772, both of these became known by the present name of Queen's Lane.

Gallery

File:St Edmund Hall in Queens Lane - geograph.org.uk - 1420217.jpg, The entrance to St Edmund Hall, as seen from Queen's Lane. File:Queens Lane just short of High Street.jpg, Queen's Lane, looking south, just short of

, Oxford. File:Queens Lane turning into New College Lane Oxford.jpg, Queen's Lane, heading north, about to turn into

, looking towards

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at the junction with

References

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External links

Queen's Lane, off High Street, Oxford

Queen's Lane Coffee House
information from

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Queen's Lane Coffee House information from OxfordCityGuide.com

— From Broad Street to

Merton Street Merton Street is a historic and picturesque cobbled street in central Oxford, England.

Streets in Oxford The Queen's College, Oxford New College, Oxford St Edmund Hall, Oxford