Woodstock Road is a major road in

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, England, running from St Giles' in the south, north towards

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through the leafy suburb of

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. To the east is Banbury Road, which it meets at the junction with St Giles'.

Buildings

At the southern end, just north of Little Clarendon Street, are the Oratory Church of St Aloysius Gonzaga and

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. Opposite Little Clarendon Street is St Giles' Church, built in 1120 and consecrated in 1200. Further north are Green Templeton College, St Anne's College and

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. Also on Woodstock Road is St Philip and St James Church, now the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies (OCMS) and St. Edward's School which is a prominent feature halfway down. Woodstock Road Baptist Church is an evangelical church on the corner with Beech Croft Road.

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and Jack 2, local radio broadcasters covering

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, are based at 270 Woodstock Road, along with the local TV channel SIX TV. The road is classified A4144.

Notable residents

Former residents include: * Norman Davis, OBE, FBA (1913–89), Merton Professor of English Language and Literature at the

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* Sir Hugh Elliott, OBE (1913–1989), ornithologist * Lord Redcliffe-Maud, GCB, CBE (1906–1982), civil servant, diplomat, and Master of

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, and Lady Redcliffe-Maud (1904–1993), pianist * Egon Wellesz, CBE (1885–1974), composer and musicologist * Rowan Atkinson and

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, lived together as students *

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, chemist, awarded a Nobel Prize for advances in protein crystallography, lived at 94 Woodstock Road from 1957 to 1968 *

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lived on Leckford Road, just off Woodstock Road, during his time as a student at Oxford.

Adjoining roads in North Oxford

* Banbury Road * Bainton Road * Beech Croft Road * Bevington Road * Blandford Avenue * Canterbury Road * Farndon Road * Frenchay Road * Lathbury Road * Leckford Road * Little Clarendon Street * Moreton Road * Observatory Street * Plantation Road * Polstead Road * Rawlinson Road * St Bernard's Road *

St Giles' Street, Oxford St Giles' is a wide boulevard leading north from the centre of Oxford, England. At its northern end, the road divides into Woodstock Road (Oxford), Woodstock Road to the left and Banbury Road to the right, both major roads through North Oxfor ...

* St Margaret's Road * South Parade * Staverton Road

References

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Buildings

Notable residents

Adjoining roads in North Oxford

See also

References