Frenchay Road is a residential 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 ...

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, 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

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to the north. Opposite and slightly to the south is

Staverton Road Staverton Road is a residential road in North Oxford, 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 ...

Chalfont Road Chalfont Road is a road in Walton Manor, North Oxford, England. Location The road runs north–south between Frenchay Road to the north and Polstead Road to the south. To the west is Hayfield Road and to the east is Woodstock Road. The house ...

leads south from halfway along the original part of the road. To the west is a junction with

Bainton Road Bainton Road is a residential road in north Oxford, England. The road runs south–north and then west–east, skirting around the west and north sides of the St John's College, Oxford, St John's College playing field. At the eastern end i ...

to the north and

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 ...

to the south. The road continued over the Frenchay Road Bridge on the

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, formerly to commercial premises by the railway line. More recently the road has been extended to the west of the canal with a bend to the north and newer residential development, The Waterways housing estate dating from 2000 to 2006, doubling the length of the road. Immediately to the southwest of Frenchay Road Bridge on the canal is the entrance to the

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nature reserve. All the original houses were designed by the leading North Oxford architect

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and were first leased between 1897 and 1906. Many were built by John Money. The road forms the approximate northern boundary of the original North Oxford development by

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, along with Staverton Road 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 Summe ...

to the east. The original houses were

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residences. Newer homes are flats,

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s, and

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s. The

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educational missionary to

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and Orientalist John Nicol Farquhar (1861–1929) lived at 11 Frenchay Road. The road is mentioned in the book ''A Death in Oxford'' by Richard MacAndrew.

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