Between Towns Road

Shops on Between Towns Road.
View from Between Towns Road of the Oxfordshire History Centre on Oxford Road, Cowley, Oxford.

Between Towns Road is a major road in the area of Cowley, in the city of Oxford, England.

Location

The road runs past the Templars Square Shopping Centre on one side and Templars Retail Park on the other. It adjoins Church Cowley Road to the west and forms a junction with Oxford Road and Garsington Road to the east.

History

The road is named after a local field called "Betwixt the Towns", dating from around 1630, subsequently spelled "Between Roads" in 1853 when the road was created.[1] It was originally known as Surman's Lane, then High Street, Cowley. The road was named "Between Towns Road" in 1930.

The Oxfordshire History Centre, close by in Oxford Road, was built in 1938 as the Church of England Parish Church of St Luke. The church declared redundant in 1993 and reopened as the Oxfordshire Record Office (now the Oxford History Centre) in 2000.

Cowley Centre, a shopping centre designed by the Oxford City Architects E. G. Chandler and Douglas Murray, was built here in 1960–65.[2] Between Towns Road was realigned when Cowley Centre was built.[1] The shopping centre was renamed to Templars Square in 1989.

References

  1. 1 2 Symonds, Ann Spokes; Morgan, Nigel (2010). "Between Towns Road". The Origins of Oxford Street Names. Robert Boyd Publications. p. 74. ISBN 978 1 899536 99 3.
  2. ↑ Hibbert, Christopher; Hibbert, Edward, eds. (1988). "Cowley Centre". The Encyclopaedia of Oxford. Macmillan. p. 112. ISBN 0-333-39917-X.

Coordinates: 51°44′03″N 1°12′44″W / 51.7343°N 1.2121°W / 51.7343; -1.2121


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