Pusey Street links the wide thoroughfare of

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(opposite St John's College) to the east with St John Street to the west in the St John Street area of central

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. Pusey Street, formerly called Alfred Street, was renamed in honour of

Edward Bouverie Pusey Edward Bouverie Pusey (; 22 August 180016 September 1882) was an English Anglican cleric, for more than fifty years Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Oxford. He was one of the leading figures in the Oxford Movement, with interest ...

in 1926. The renaming also avoided confusion with another

Alfred Street Alfred Street is a street running between the High Street, Oxford, High Street to the north and the junction with Blue Boar Street and Bear Lane at the southern end, in central Oxford, England.

to the south. The street is about 150 yards long and is one-way eastbound for most of its length. The street is bordered by two educational establishments of

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. On the north side of the street is the

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Regent's Park College Regent's Park College (known colloquially within the university as Regent's) is a permanent private hall of the University of Oxford, situated in central Oxford, just off St Giles', England, United Kingdom. Founded in 1810, the college move ...

. This includes a large white building on the corner with St Giles' called Wheeler Robinson House, the ground floor of which is occupied by an

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bookshop. To the south are

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and

Pusey House Pusey House () is an Anglican religious institution and charitable incorporated organisation located on St Giles', Oxford, United Kingdom, immediately to the south of Pusey Street. It is firmly rooted in the Anglo-Catholic Book of Common Praye ...

, founded in 1884. Pusey House Chapel is on the corner with St Giles'. Pusey Lane off Pusey Street was renamed from Alfred Lane at the same time as Pusey Street was renamed.

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manufactured the MG 14/28 car here from 1924 until the move to larger premises in Bainton Road,

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, in September 1925.

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