
Woodstock Road is a major road in
Oxford
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The city is home to the University of Oxford, the List of oldest universities in continuou ...
, England, running from
St Giles' in the south, north towards
Woodstock
The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to as Woodstock, was a music festival held from August 15 to 18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, southwest of the town of Woodstock, New York, Woodstock. Billed as "a ...
through the leafy suburb of
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 architecture, Victorian houses were initially sold on leasehold by the co ...
. 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
Somerville College
Somerville College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. It was founded in 1879 as Somerville Hall, one of its first two women's colleges. It began admitting men in 1994. The college's liberal tone derives from its f ...
. 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
St Antony's College
St Antony's College is a colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Founded in 1950 as the result of the gift of French merchant Sir Antonin Besse of Aden, St Antony's specialises in intern ...
. 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.
Jack FM
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F ...
and
Jack 2, local radio broadcasters covering
Oxfordshire
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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:
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Norman Davis,
OBE,
FBA (1913–89),
Merton Professor of English Language and Literature at the
University of Oxford
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* Sir
Hugh Elliott, OBE (1913–1989), ornithologist
*
Lord Redcliffe-Maud,
GCB,
CBE (1906–1982), civil servant, diplomat, and Master of
University College, Oxford
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, and
Lady Redcliffe-Maud (1904–1993), pianist
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Egon Wellesz, CBE (1885–1974), composer and musicologist
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Rowan Atkinson and
Richard Curtis
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, lived together as students
*
Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin (née Crowfoot; 12 May 1910 – 29 July 1994) was a Nobel Prize-winning English chemist who advanced the technique of X-ray crystallography to determine the structure of biomolecules, which became essential for ...
, chemist, awarded a Nobel Prize for advances in protein crystallography, lived at 94 Woodstock Road from 1957 to 1968
*
Bill Clinton
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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
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Banbury Road
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Bainton Road
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Beech Croft Road
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Bevington Road
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Blandford Avenue
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Canterbury Road
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Farndon Road
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Frenchay Road
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Lathbury Road
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Leckford Road
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Little Clarendon Street
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Moreton Road
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Observatory Street
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Plantation Road
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Polstead Road
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Rawlinson Road
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St Bernard's Road
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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
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South Parade
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Staverton Road
See also
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Belsyre Court
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Oxford Oratory
The Oxford Oratory Church of St Aloysius Gonzaga (or Oxford Oratory for short) is the Catholic Church, Catholic parish church for the centre of Oxford, England. It is located at 25 Woodstock Road (Oxford), Woodstock Road, next to Somerville Col ...
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St Edward's School, Oxford
References
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Streets in Oxford
Roads in Oxfordshire
Green Templeton College, Oxford
St Anne's College, Oxford
St Antony's College, Oxford
St Hugh's College, Oxford
Somerville College, Oxford