Chalfont Road is a road in

Walton Manor Walton Manor is a residential suburb in Oxford, England. It is north of Jericho and the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter and forms part of North Oxford. The street layout and many of the area's buildings date from the mid-19th century. It was devel ...

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 ...

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Location

The road runs north–south between

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 ...

to the north and Polstead Road to the south. To the west is

Hayfield Road Hayfield Road is a residential road that runs north-south in Walton Manor, north Oxford, England. Location To the south, the road continues as Kingston Road, although it is blocked to through traffic. Aristotle Lane leads off to the west ove ...

and to the east is Woodstock Road. The houses in Chalfont Road have been described as "small large house(s)" as opposed to the "large small house(s)" in the Southmoor Road area to the southwest.

History

Houses in the road were originally leased between 1890 and 1904 as part of the

estate of St John's College. The houses were nearly all designed by

Harry Wilkinson Moore Harry Wilkinson Moore, FRIBA (1850–1915) was a Victorian and Edwardian architect. He was the son of Arthur Moore (1814–1873) and Mary Wilkinson (1821–1904), and a nephew of the architects George Wilkinson and William Wilkinson. Care ...

. The provision of a tram service from the centre of Oxford to St Margaret's Road in 1882 made it possible to expand the building of the estate further north to Chalfont Road and Frenchay Road.

Residents

The psychiatrist Anthony Storr (1920–2001), a

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of Green College, Oxford, lived in Chalfont Road. The

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s and

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s Sir

Tony Hoare Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare (; born 11 January 1934), also known as C. A. R. Hoare, is a British computer scientist who has made foundational contributions to programming languages, algorithms, operating systems, formal verification, and ...

Dana Scott Dana Stewart Scott (born October 11, 1932) is an American logician who is the emeritus Hillman University Professor of Computer Science, Philosophy, and Mathematical Logic at Carnegie Mellon University; he is now retired and lives in Berkeley, C ...

, and Robin Wilson also lived in Chalfont Road. Brian Aldiss 2005

Literature

Chalfont Road is mentioned in the books ''Forgotten Life'' by

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and ''Lost and Found'' by Valerie Mendes (step-mother of the director

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References

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