Staverton Road is a residential road in

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, England.

Location

The road runs east–west with a gentle curve halfway along. 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' Street, Oxford, St Giles' at the south end, north towards Banbury through the leafy suburb of North Oxford and Summertown, Oxford, Summertown, with its local shoppi ...

(A4165), the two major arterial roads out of

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to the north. Opposite slightly to the north at the western end is

Frenchay Road Frenchay Road is a residential road in Walton Manor, North Oxford, England. The oldest part of the road runs east–west. At the eastern end is a junction with Woodstock Road (A4144), a major arterial road out of Oxford to the north. Oppos ...

. Opposite slightly to the south at the eastern end is

Belbroughton Road Belbroughton Road is a residential road in the suburb of North Oxford, England. The road runs east from Banbury Road. At the other end is Oxford High School, a girls' school. South from the road about halfway along is Northmoor Road, where J. ...

. Parallel to the south is

Rawlinson Road Rawlinson Road is a residential road in North Oxford, England. Location 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 (A4165), the two major arterial roads ou ...

and to the north 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 ...

. It forms the approximate northern boundary of the original North Oxford development 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 ...

, along with Frenchay Road to the west and

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 ...

to the east.

Stavertonia

Entrance to University College annex, Oxford

Redcliffe-Maud House, University College annex, Oxford

"Stavertonia" (aka Stavs and formerly Stavers), or the ''University College Annexe'', a student accommodation complex of buildings for

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, is located south of the road, largely built from 1967. The new buildings were designed by the University College alumnus Sir

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. Staverton House, at 104 Woodstock Road close to Staverton Road, was bought by University College in 1953 and converted into flats.

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(1878–1963),

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of University College from 1937–45, rented one of the flats for a while. The site includes

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(formerly 100A Woodstock Road, built in the garden of 100 Woodstock Road), named after a former

of University College at the time of the development of Stavertonia,

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. , the Stavertonia site is being further extended and developed to become Univ North (formally University College, North Oxford), stretching all the way to

, expanding the existing 12,000 m² site by 8,000 m².

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has an annexe on the north corner of Staverton Road with Woodstock Road, providing accommodation for over 70 members of the college. It was built in 1979 to a design by the architect

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of Grey and Baynes.

Residents

The

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astronomer

John Louis Emil Dreyer John Louis Emil Dreyer (13 February 1852 – 14 September 1926) was a Danish astronomer who spent most of his career working in Ireland. He spent the last decade of his life in Oxford, England. Life Dreyer was born in Copenhagen. His fathe ...

(1852–1926) lived at 14 Staverton Road from 30 September 1916 onwards with his wife Kate. While in

, he worked on his 15-volume edited collection of the works of the Danish astronomer

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. On 14 September 1926, Dreyer died at his home in Staverton Road. England's first woman barrister and tutor at St Anne's College, Ivy Williams, lived at 30 Staverton Road until her death in 1966. The theologian and bishop within the

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(born Timothy Ware, 1934), lived with his parents at 15 Staverton Road. Other residents include the ecological economist Stanislav Edward Shmelev, Sir William D. M. Paton FRS (1917–1993), winner of the

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in 1959 and Professor of

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at the

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, and the

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physicist H. M. Rosenberg. The fictional character George Papadimitriou called a meeting of the Oakley Street resistance group at 28 Staverton Road in

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’s ''

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'', Volume One, "

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", chapter 13.

References

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