17-514: Southmoor Road is a residential road in Walton Manor , north Oxford , England . The road runs north–south, with a turn to the east to join Kingston Road , which runs parallel to the east, at its northern end. At the southern end, there is a junction with Longworth Road and Walton Well Road . Halfway along is a junction with Southmoor Place to the east, also linking it with Kingston Road. To
34-515: A blue plaque , unveiled on 29 June 2019, for the Chinese artist and writer Chiang Yee (1903–1977) at 28 Southmoor Road, where he lived during 1940–1955. Here he worked on the illustrated book The Silent Traveller in Oxford , first published by Methuen in 1944. In previous times, the road has been relatively down-market, but it is now a desirable area. Residents in the road celebrated its centenary with
51-574: A street party on 22 June 1986. This Oxfordshire location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This England road or road transport-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . 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
68-408: A short cut to Binsey , Medley , and Wytham via a ford , called Walton Ford or Walton Well Ford. The Oxford Canal reached the outskirts of Oxford in 1789, when a coal wharf was opened at Heyfield Hutt, now the site of Hayfield Road to the north of Walton Well Road. The final section into central Oxford was ceremonially opened on 1 January 1790; it needed a bridge to be built over it to maintain
85-426: Is a road, about 400 metres (a quarter mile) long, near the centre of Oxford , England . It provides a link from central Oxford to Port Meadow . The road marks the northern edge of the district known as Jericho . At the eastern end is the north end of Walton Street and the south end of Kingston Road at the junction with St Bernard's Road . The western end is reached by a bridge (Walton Well Road Bridge) spanning
102-571: The Oxford Canal and also the railway line. Here there is access to Port Meadow and the Thames Path , with a car park run by Oxford City Council . About halfway along the road is a junction with Longworth Road and Southmoor Road . To the south, between the canal and the railway line, a new residential road, William Lucy Way , was developed around 2006, on the other side of the Oxford Canal from
119-420: The archaeological excavation, a 17th-century pit and a possible 19th-century well were discovered to the rear of 25 Walton Well Road. The Cherwell Valley line railway next to the Oxford Canal was opened in 1850. In this decade, a railway station was planned at Walton Well. A railway line to Brentford in west London was proposed by the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway from this station, across
136-475: The area's buildings date from the mid-19th century. It was developed on land belonging to St John's College, Oxford . In 1975, Walton Manor was designated as a Conservation Area under the Town and Country Planning Act 1971 . The conservation area is bounded by Leckford Road on the north, Woodstock Road on the east, the properties fronting Observatory Street to the south, and Kingston Road and Walton Street to
153-611: The former Lucy's Eagle Ironworks site. To the south are modern residential apartments on the site of the Eagle Ironworks, St Sepulchre's Cemetery and beyond that Juxon Street . The Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance , a research institute of the University of Oxford established in 2007, is located at Eagle House in Walton Well Road. The road is on the site of a spring known as Walton Well (or Bruman's Well) At
170-493: The link to Port Meadow. The canal led to the industrialization of the area. In the 19th century, there was a basin and Walton Well hard for boats from the canal at Walton Well Road near the junction with Longworth Road. On the south side of the street for many years was the historic Eagle Ironworks (aka Lucy's), first established on this site by the Oxford Canal in 1825. The area has now been redeveloped as flats by Berkeley Homes , after an archaeological evaluation. During
187-458: The location of the spring, there is a drinking fountain in the road, with a plaque dated 1885. It was erected by William Ward , who was Mayor of Oxford in 1851 and 1861. The fountain was designed by the architect Harry Wilkinson Moore and carved in Portland stone by McCulloch of London . The road is important historically because not only did it lead to Port Meadow, but it was also used as
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#1732884288138204-427: The parish of St Giles , just north of the present Bevington Road and Norham Gardens . The plan never materialized. The houses on Walton Well Road were built between 1873 and 1897. Many were designed by the architect H. W. Moore (who also designed the fountain in the street mentioned earlier) in the 1880s, some in collaboration with William Wilkinson . No. 2 Walton Well Road, an imposing double-fronted residence,
221-545: The poet and short story writer A. E. Coppard (1878–1957) had a clerical post at the Eagle Ironworks in Walton Well Road, as recounted in his autobiography It's Me, O Lord! Also in Walton Well Road was the Catholic Workers College (at No. 2) from 1921 until 1955 when it moved to Boar's Hill south of Oxford and was renamed Plater College . Squatters moved into the area during the 1960s and 1970s, and were dubbed 'Waltons'. Around 2000, The Waterways estate
238-504: The southern end of Southmoor Road, at the junction with Longworth Road and Walton Well Road, a drinking fountain was installed in 1885 on the site of a water spring . It was erected by William Ward , who was earlier Mayor of Oxford for the years 1851 and 1861. The fountain was designed by Harry Wilkinson Moore, architect of many of the houses in Southmoor Road, and carved in Portland stone by McCulloch of London . The road includes
255-609: The west is the Oxford Canal . To the south is the district of Jericho . The houses have been described as "large small house(s)" as opposed to the "small large house(s)" in the Chalfont Road area to the northeast. Houses in the road were originally leased between 1883 and 1895 as part of the North Oxford estate of St John's College . The houses were mainly designed by the architectural partnership of Wilkinson & Moore , with some by Harry Wilkinson Moore and J. C. Gray . At
272-583: The west. The main road north–south through the area is Kingston Road, which continues southwards as Walton Street towards the city centre. Walton Manor has a residents' association. Walton Manor Farm used to be on the site of St Sepulchre's Cemetery , in Jericho , just south of the Eagle Ironworks on Walton Well Road . This Oxfordshire location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Walton Well Road Walton Well Road
289-508: Was the house of the ironmaster at the adjacent Lucy's foundry. On the south side of the street is the "Elijah terrace", a row of terraced houses built by Joseph Codgbrook Curtis. These include nine carved panels by the local sculptor Samuel Grafton, based in Cowley Road, Oxford , on aspects of the biblical story of the prophet Elijah in the Old Testament . During the early 20th century,
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