Moreton Road is a residential road in the Oxford suburb of North Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.
Location
The road runs east–west. 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. The road continues east slightly to the north on the Marston Ferry Road (B4495). To the south is
Lathbury Road and to the north is Beech Croft Road. It lies to the north of the original
North Oxford development by St John's College, Oxford, but since it is south of Summertown, it is often considered to be part of Central North Oxford, with high house prices.
On the corner of Moreton Road at 153 Banbury Road, there was a Carmelite Convent until 1987. (1988). 033339917X, Macmillan. 033339917X
Notable people
A number of Oxford University academics have lived in Moreton Road. Frederick Mason Brewer CBE
FRIC (1903–1963), Head of the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory at the University of Oxford, and Mayor of Oxford during 1959–60,
lived at 6 Moreton Road.
The classical scholar and Fellow of University College, Oxford,
George Cawkwell (1919–2019), and the
legal scholar Sir
Guenter Treitel (1928–2019), lived in Moreton Road.
In popular culture
Moreton Road features in the eponymous biography about the Australian composer
Peter Sculthorpe, who won a scholarship to study at Oxford University,
and also in the novel
Restless (winner of the Novel Award in the 2006 Costa Book Awards) by William Boyd.
See also
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