The river at the Cherwell Boathouse - geograph

Chadlington Road is a road in

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, England.

Location

At the northern end is

Linton Road Linton Road is a road in North Oxford, England. Location At the western end is the Banbury Road. At the eastern end is Wolfson College, Oxford, Wolfson College, a graduate college of the University of Oxford. To the north at the eastern end, ...

, close to the front entrance of Wolfson College, a graduate college of the

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. Many of the houses on the east side adjoin and are used by the college. At the southern end, the road continues as

Bardwell Road Bardwell Road is a residential road in Oxford, England. It is located in North Oxford off the Banbury Road, within the area of Oxford once owned by St John's College, Oxford. The road is known for its schools, especially the Dragon School. H ...

by the

Dragon School The Dragon School is a private school across two sites in Oxford, England. The Dragon Pre-Prep (children aged 4–7) and Prep School (children aged 8–13) are both co-educational schools. The Dragon Prep School was founded in 1877 as the Oxfo ...

. Here a small lane leads east down to the Cherwell Boathouse (formerly "Tims's") on the

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, where punts can be hired and a restaurant is now located. Parallel to the west is Charlbury Road.

History

Houses in the road were first leased between 1910 and 1917. Most of the houses were designed by the architect N. W. Harrison. No. 11 was designed with

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ing and stone-battered

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es by

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Notable residents

William Henry Perkin, Jr. (1860–1929), an organic chemist at the

and the son of the notable chemist W. H. Perkin, leased No. 3 Chadlington Road in 1917. The historian and author

Antonia Fraser Lady Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser, (; born 27 August 1932) is a British author of history, novels, biographies and detective fiction. She is the widow of the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Harold Pinter (1930–2008), and prior to h ...

(born 1932) lived at 8 Chadlington Road as a child when she attended the Dragon School, a short walking distance away. J. H. R. ('Joc') Lynam, headmaster of the Dragon School from 1942–65, leased 6 Chadlington Road in 1958. The Haldane family lived at 'Cherwell', a house located between Chadlington Road and the River Cherwell, in the early 20th century. The family included the

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and father,

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, together with his children, the

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and

evolutionary biologist Evolutionary biology is the subfield of biology that studies the evolutionary processes such as natural selection, common descent, and speciation that produced the diversity of life on Earth. In the 1930s, the discipline of evolutionary biol ...

J. B. S. Haldane John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (; 5 November 18921 December 1964), nicknamed "Jack" or "JBS", was a British-born scientist who later moved to India and acquired Indian citizenship. He worked in the fields of physiology, genetics, evolutionary ...

(

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), and the novelist

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. The house was built by George Gardiner and included a private laboratory. It was demolished to make way for Wolfson College, completed in 1974.

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