St Margaret's Road is a road in

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Location

The road runs between Kingston Road to the west and

Banbury Road Banbury Road is a major arterial road in Oxford, England, running from St Giles' at the south end, north towards Banbury through the leafy suburb of North Oxford and Summertown, with its local shopping centre. Parallel and to the west is the ...

to the east, crossing Woodstock Road. To the south are

Farndon Road Farndon Road is a residential road in North Oxford, England. At the western end of the road is a junction with Kingston Road and Southmoor Road continues opposite. At the eastern end is a junction with Woodstock Road (A4144), a major arteri ...

to the west and Canterbury Road to the east. To the north are

Polstead Road Polstead Road is a residential road that runs between Kingston Road and Hayfield Road to the west and the Woodstock Road to the east, in the suburb of North Oxford, England. Halfway along it forms the southern junction of Chalfont Road. The r ...

(west) and Rawlinson Road (east). The main entrance of

St Hugh's College St Hugh's College is a Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent college of the University of Oxford. It is located on a site on St Margaret's Road, to the north of the city centre. It was founded in 1886 by Elizabeth Wordsworth as a ...

, the northernmost

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college and one of the former women's colleges, is on the south side of the road. The grounds of the College stretch along the road from Woodstock Road to Banbury Road. On the northeast corner with Kingston Road at the western end is St Margaret's parish church.

Green Templeton College Green Templeton College (GTC) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. The college is located on the former Green College site on Woodstock Road next to the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter in North Oxford and is ...

has accommodation in several houses on St Margaret's Road.St Margaret's Road
,

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, UK.

History

Rackham Lane, which later became St Margaret's Road, was laid out in 1879 as part of the

Norham Manor The Norham Manor estate is a residential suburb in Oxford, England. It is part of central North Oxford. To the north is Park Town with its crescents, to the east is the River Cherwell, to the south are the University Parks and to the west is ...

estate. According to

Henry Taunt Henry William Taunt (1842–1922) was a professional photographer, author, publisher and entertainer based in Oxford, England. Birth Henry Taunt was born in Penson's Gardens in the parish of St Ebbe's, Oxford. His father Henry was a plumber a ...

, the part of the road between Banbury Road and Woodstock Road was called Gallows-Baulk Road. When the road was improved, the remains of several people who had been hanged were found. The houses in St Margaret's Road were mostly designed by William Wilkinson and

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 ...

in partnership. They were built between 1879 and 1886. The main buildings of St Hugh's College are by Herbert Tudor Buckland and William Haywood, dating from 1914–16 and built in a neo-Georgian style.

Gallery

File:St Margaret's Road, Oxford.JPG, View west along St Margaret's Road from the junction with Woodstock Road. File:North side of St Hugh's College, Oxford.JPG,

buildings on the south side of St Margaret's Road. File:St Hugh's Front.jpg, The main entrance of St Hugh's College on St Margaret's Road.

References

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