Lathbury Road

View east along Lathbury Road from the junction with Woodstock Road.
20 Lathbury Road, the former home of the Bengali author and broadcaster Nirad Chaudhuri, with its blue plaque.[1]
The blue plaque for Nirad Chaudhuri in Lathbury Road.[1]

Lathbury Road is a residential road in north Oxford, England.

The road runs approximately east–west with a small curve halfway along. At the western end of the road is a junction with Woodstock Road (A4144) and at the eastern end is a junction with Banbury Road (A4165), the two major arterial roads out of Oxford to the north. To the south is Staverton Road and to the north is Moreton Road. It lies to the north of the original North Oxford development by St John's College, Oxford[2] but since it is south of Summertown it is often considered to be part of Central North Oxford, with high house prices.[3]

The Bengali author and broadcaster Nirad Chaudhuri (1897–1999) lived at 20 Lathbury Road from 1982 to 1999.[4] A blue plaque was installed by the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board in 2008.[1] The jurist and international lawyer Sir Humphrey Waldock (1904–1981) lived at 6 Lathbury Road.[5] The historian Ralph Henry Carless Davis (1918–1991) lived in Lathbury Road with his wife Eleanor.[6]

In the early 1980s, Williams College, a liberal arts college located in Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA, purchased a group of houses, today known as the Ephraim Williams House, on Banbury Road and Lathbury Road.[7] The Williams-Exeter Programme was founded in 1985. Since that time, 26 undergraduate students from Williams College spend their junior year at Exeter College, Oxford each year as members of the college.

The Nursery (for 2–5-year-old children) is located at 17 Lathbury Road.[8] The main premises of St Clare's, an independent international boarding school founded in 1953, is also located at 139 Banbury Road, just to the north of Lathbury Road.[9]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Warr, Elizabeth Jean (2011). The Oxford Plaque Guide. Stroud, Gloucestershire: The History Press. pp. 34–35. ISBN 978-0-7524-5687-4.
  2. ↑ Hibbert, Christopher, ed. (1988). "North Oxford". The Encyclopaedia of Oxford. Macmillan. pp. 282–284. ISBN 0-333-39917-X.
  3. ↑ "Sold House Prices in Lathbury Road". Oxford Mail. Retrieved 3 September 2012.
  4. ↑ Symonds, Ann Spokes (1997). "The Chaudhuris". The Changing Faces of North Oxford. Book One. Robert Boyd Publications. p. 90. ISBN 1-899536-25-6.
  5. ↑ "Lathbury Road". Kelly's Directory of Oxford (68th ed.). Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey: Kelly's Directories. 1976. p. 378.
  6. ↑ Roberts, Martin (2003). "Ralph Davis: A Personal Appreciation". In Mayr-Harting, Henry; Moore, R. I. Studies in Medieval History: Presented to R.H.C. Davis. Continuum International Publishing Group. p. 12. ISBN 978-0907628682.
  7. ↑ "Williams at Exeter Programme in Oxford". Exeter College, Oxford. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
  8. ↑ "The Nursery". Oxford, UK. Retrieved 3 September 2012.
  9. ↑ "Contact us". St Clare's, Oxford. Retrieved 11 September 2012.

Coordinates: 51°46′21″N 1°15′55″W / 51.7725°N 1.2653°W / 51.7725; -1.2653

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