South Parks Road is a road in

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. It runs east–west past the main Science Area of the

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. Many of the university science departments are located nearby or face the road, including parts of the geography, zoology, chemistry, psychology and physiology departments. Also on the road is

Rhodes House Rhodes House is a building part of the University of Oxford in England. It is located on South Parks Road in central Oxford, and was built in memory of Cecil Rhodes, an alumnus of the university and a major benefactor. It is Listed building#En ...

. To the west, the road adjoins

Parks Road Parks Road is a road in Oxford, England, with several Oxford University colleges along its route. It runs north–south from the Banbury Road and Norham Gardens at the northern end, where it continues into Bradmore Road, to the junction with Bro ...

at a

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with the

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just to the north. In December 2018 it was announced that the proposed new graduate college of the university, Parks College, opening in September 2020, would be located on South Parks Road. The college has since been built under the name of Reuben College, and is connected to the Radcliffe Science Library. To the east, the road bends sharply south at

Linacre College Linacre College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. The college was founded in 1962 and is named after Thomas Linacre (1460–1524), founder of the Royal College of Physicians as well as a distinguished re ...

and becomes St Cross Road. A cycle route continues east towards

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, crossing the

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. About halfway along South Parks Road, Mansfield Road adjoins to the south. Mansfield College is close to South Parks Road in this section. The road has been the scene of protests by

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protesters because of a new

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facility that has been built here.

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has been formed in reaction to the activities of the

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Halifax House

Halifax House was located at 8 South Parks Road on the corner with Mansfield Road from 1961, a social club for people associated with Oxford University. The building has since been demolished to make way for new science facilities for the university. Evidence of

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barrows together with later

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and early

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s has been found on the site.

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Streets in Oxford Rhodes House {{England-road-stub

Halifax House

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