Plantation Road

Plantation Road from the western end at Kingston Road.
View of Wyndham House, a retirement home, from Plantation Road.
The Gardeners Arms public house in Plantation Road, from Leckford Place.

Plantation Road is a residential road in North Oxford, England, connecting Kingston Road to the west with Woodstock Road to the east.[1][2]

To the north is Leckford Road and to the south is St Bernard's Road. Leckford Place crosses it halfway along. The eastern part of the road is very narrow, almost like a village lane despite now being in a city suburb.

In the past there was a plantation here, hence the name.[1] The road was laid out with building plots by 1832. The philanthropic Oxford Cottage Improvement Company built a block of seven cottages in 1888 on the south side of the road.

The Gardener's Arms public house,[3] at 39 Plantation Road on the corner with Leckford Place, dates from the late 1830s and has a vegetarian restaurant.[4] The 20th-century Wyndham House, officially opened by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother in 1973,[5] provides sheltered housing with 33 flats, also on a corner with Leckford Place.[6] The Jericho Chiropractic Clinic is at 16 Plantation Road.[7]

Towards the end of his life, the diplomat and author Sir Reader Bullard (1885–1976) lived in Plantation Road.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b Hibbert, Christopher, ed. (1988). "Plantation Road". The Encyclopaedia of Oxford. Macmillan. pp. 325–326. ISBN 0-333-39917-X.
  2. ^ Hinchcliffe, Tanis (1992). North Oxford. New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 35, 82. ISBN 0-300-05184-0.
  3. ^ "Gardener's Arms (Plantation Road)". The Oxford Guide. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
  4. ^ "The Garden and The Gardener's Arms". Oxford. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
  5. ^ Symonds, Ann Spokes (1998). "Wyndham House". The Changing Faces of North Oxford. Vol. Book Two. Robert Boyd Publications. p. 86–87. ISBN 1 899536 33 7.
  6. ^ "Wyndham House". Oxford: HousingCare.org. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
  7. ^ "Jericho Chiropractic Clinic". Oxford. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
  8. ^ "Plantation Road". Kelly's Directory of Oxford (68th ed.). Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey: Kelly's Directories. 1976. pp. 422–423.

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