Staverton Road is a residential road in

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, 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 with Banbury Road (A4165), the two major arterial roads out of

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to the north. Opposite slightly to the north at the western end is

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 ...

. Opposite slightly to the south at the eastern end is Belbroughton Road. Parallel to the south is Rawlinson Road and to the north is

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. It forms the approximate northern boundary of the original North Oxford development by

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, along with Frenchay Road to the west and Marston Ferry Road to the east.

Stavertonia

"Stavertonia" (aka Stavs and formerly Stavers), or the ''University College Annexe'', a student accommodation complex of buildings for

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, is located south of the road, largely built from 1967. The new buildings were designed by the University College alumnus Sir

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. Staverton House, at 104 Woodstock Road close to Staverton Road, was bought by University College in 1953 and converted into flats. Lord Beveridge (1878–1963),

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of University College from 1937–45, rented one of the flats for a while. The site includes Redcliffe-Maud House (formerly 100A Woodstock Road, built in the garden of 100 Woodstock Road), named after a former

of University College at the time of the development of Stavertonia,

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. , the Stavertonia site is being further extended and developed to become Univ North (formally University College, North Oxford), stretching all the way to Banbury Road, expanding the existing 12,000 m² site by 8,000 m².

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has an annexe on the north corner of Staverton Road with Woodstock Road, providing accommodation for over 70 members of the college. It was built in 1979 to a design by the architect Simon Shew of Grey and Baynes.

Residents

The Danish- Irish astronomer John Louis Emil Dreyer (1852–1926) lived at 14 Staverton Road from 30 September 1916 onwards with his wife Kate. While in

, he worked on his 15-volume edited collection of the works of the Danish astronomer

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. On 14 September 1926, Dreyer died at his home in Staverton Road. England's first woman barrister and tutor at St Anne's College, Ivy Williams, lived at 30 Staverton Road until her death in 1966. The theologian and bishop within the

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(born Timothy Ware, 1934), lived with his parents at 15 Staverton Road. Other residents include the ecological economist Stanislav Edward Shmelev, Sir William D. M. Paton FRS (1917–1993), winner of the Gairdner Foundation International Award in 1959 and Professor of

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at the

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, and the solid-state physicist H. M. Rosenberg. The fictional character George Papadimitriou called a meeting of the Oakley Street resistance group at 28 Staverton Road in

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’s '' The Book of Dust'', Volume One, " La Belle Sauvage", chapter 13.

References

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