Longworth Road
Longworth Road is a residential road in Walton Manor, North Oxford, England.[1]
Location
[edit]The road runs southwest–northeast, between a junction with Southmoor Road and Walton Well Road to the southwest and Kingston Road opposite Leckford Road to the northeast. To the south is the district of Jericho.
History
[edit]Houses in the road were originally leased between 1887 and 1890 as part of the North Oxford estate of St John's College.[1][2] The street was named in 1890–1, probably after the village of Longworth, historically in Berkshire and now in Oxfordshire, with St John's College connections.[3]
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At the southwestern end, at the junction with Walton Well Road, a drinking fountain was installed in 1885 on the site of a water spring.[4] It was erected by William Ward, who was earlier Mayor of Oxford for the years 1851 and 1861.[5] The fountain was designed by Harry Wilkinson Moore, architect of many of the houses in the adjoining Southmoor Road, and carved in Portland stone by McCulloch of London.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Hinchcliffe, Tanis (1992). North Oxford. New Haven & London: Yale University Press. pp. 231–232. ISBN 978-0-300-05184-1.
- ^ Symonds, Ann Spokes (1998). The Changing Faces of Oxford. Vol. Book Two. Witney: Robert Boyd Publications. p. 27. ISBN 978-1-899536-33-7.
- ^ Symonds, Ann Spokes; Morgan, Nigel (2011). The Origin of Oxford Street Names. Witney: Robert Boyd Publications. p. 146. ISBN 978-1-899536-99-3.
- ^ Hope, Robert Charles, ed. (2003). "Walton or Bruman's Well". Legendary Lore of the Holy Wells of England Including Rivers, Lakes, Fountains and Springs. Kessinger Publishing. p. 124. ISBN 978-0-7661-6716-2.
- ^ "Inscriptions: Drinking fountain". Oxford Streets. UK: Oxford History. Retrieved 1 March 2013.
- ^ Saint, Andrew (1970). "Three Oxford architects" (PDF). Oxoniensia. 35: 53.
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