Woodstock Road

Woodstock Road is the major road that runs from St Giles' at its southern end north through the leafy suburb of North Oxford and out towards the town of Woodstock. The Banbury Road lies to the east and meets it at the top of St Giles'. The road itself is classified A4144.

The southern end is the densest. Just north of Little Clarendon Street stand the Oratory Church of St Aloysius Gonzaga and Somerville College; opposite Little Clarendon Street is the parish church of St Giles' Church, built in 1120 and consecrated in 1200. Further north sit Green Templeton College, St Anne's College and St Antony's College, and the former parish church of St Philip and St James — now the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies. Roughly halfway out of town, St Edward's School is the dominant frontage, and Woodstock Road Baptist Church stands further north on the corner with Beech Croft Road.

The road carries an unusual concentration of academic and political residents. Dorothy Hodgkin, who won the Nobel Prize for her work on protein crystallography, lived at 94 Woodstock Road from 1957 to 1968. Rowan Atkinson and Richard Curtis lived together here as students. And just off the road on Leckford Road, Bill Clinton kept lodgings during his time as an Oxford student.

Sources: Wikipedia: Woodstock Road, Oxford · OpenStreetMap