Old Road, Oxford

Old Road is a long street in Headington, east Oxford, England, extending into Oxfordshire as a road east of Oxford, to Littleworth near Wheatley.[2] It is part of the main old road between Oxford and London until the late 18th century,[3] passing over Shotover Hill.[4] Nowadays it intersects with the Oxford Ring Road (A4142).

For other places called Old Road, see Old Road (disambiguation).
Houses on Old Road in Littleworth, near Wheatley
An old limestone quarry at Rock Edge, near the junction of Old Road and Windmill Road[1]

At the western end, Old Road connects with Warneford Lane, Gypsy Road, and Roosevelt Drive, close to Cheney School and the Warneford Hospital. Travelling east, the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences (NDORMS) and Rock Edge Nature Reserve[1] (including the old Rock Edge quarry site, a Site of Special Scientific Interest) are to the north, near the junction with Windmill Road (north) and The Slade (south). Passing across Eastern By-Pass Road (A4142, part of the Oxford Ring Road), the road passed through Shotover Country Park. At the eastern end, Old Road joins Littleworth Road in Littleworth on the outskirts of Wheatley.

The Old Road Campus of Oxford University, to the south of Old Road, is named after the road.[5]

References
  1. "Rock Edge (Crossroads or Windmill Quarry)". Headington history: The quarries. UK: Headington, Oxford. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  2. "Old Road in Oxford". www.streetlist.co.uk. UK: Streetlist. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  3. "The two roads to London". Headington history. UK: Headington, Oxford. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  4. Hibbert, Christopher, ed. (1988). "Old Road". The Encyclopaedia of Oxford. Macmillan. p. 290. ISBN 0-333-39917-X.
  5. "Old Road Campus" (PDF). rstmh.org. RSTMH. Retrieved 16 April 2020.

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