Bainton Road
Bainton Road is a residential road in north Oxford, England.[1]
Route
[edit]The road runs south–north and then west–east, skirting around the west and north sides of the St John's College playing field. At the eastern end is a junction with Woodstock Road (A4144), a major arterial road out of Oxford to the north.[2] At the southern end is a junction with Frenchay Road. The road continues south as Hayfield Road. To the west is the Oxford Canal.
History
[edit]N. W. Harrison, surveyor to the North Oxford building estate, laid out the road around the west and north side of the cricket ground of St John's College.[1] The houses in Bainton Road were first leased between 1906 and 1931.
Morris Motors made car radiators in a factory on Bainton Road.[3]
In September 1925, the MG Cars factory moved from the cramped facilities at Alfred Lane (Pusey Lane off Pusey Street since around 1927[4]) in central Oxford to join the Radiator Branch at Bainton Road, within a partitioned area of the premises. The MG 14/28 car was manufactured at both sites between 1924 and 1927.
The Holiday Caravan Company was also based in Bainton Road.[5]
Notable residents
[edit]The New Zealand writer, journalist and editor John Mulgan (1911–1945) lived at 5 Bainton Road.[6] The Welsh academic, novelist and critic Raymond Williams (1921–1988) bought 47 Bainton Road from a colleague in 1960.[7] The physicist, philosopher and author Danah Zohar has lived at 57 Bainton Road.[8]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Hinchcliffe, Tanis (1992). North Oxford. New Haven & London: Yale University Press. pp. 86, 187, 216. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.
- ^ "Bainton Road". Kelly's Directory of Oxford (68th ed.). Kelly's Directories. 1976. p. 267.
- ^ McComb, F. Wilson (2004). MG by McComb (5th ed.). MotorBooks International. p. 46. ISBN 978-0760319895.
- ^ "Streets with changed names". Oxford Streets. Oxford History. Retrieved 9 September 2012.
- ^ Jenkinson, Andrew (2003). Caravans: The Illustrated History 1919–1959. Veloce Publishing. p. 27. ISBN 978-1903706824.
- ^ O'Sullivan, Vincent (2011). Long Journey to the Border: A Life of John Mulgan (2nd ed.). Bridget Williams Books. p. 158. ISBN 978-1927131329.
- ^ Inglis, Fred (1998). Raymond Williams. Routledge. p. 152. ISBN 978-0203979853.
- ^ Hameroff, Stuart R.; Kaszniak, Alfred W.; Scott, Alwyn C., eds. (1996). Toward a Science of Consciousness: The First Tucson Discussions and Debates. MIT Press. p. 758. ISBN 978-0262082495.