Juxon Street

Juxon Street is a street in the north of Jericho, an inner suburb of Oxford, England.[1][2]

View east along the south side of Juxon Street.

Location

To the east is a junction with Walton Street. To the north are St Sepulchre's Cemetery, Lucy's Eagle Ironworks (now residential), and beyond that Walton Well Road. To the west is the Oxford Canal and beyond that the Castle Mill Stream. To the south is most of the rest of the suburb of Jericho and central Oxford.

History

Previously this area was part of the Walton Manor farm owned by St John's College, Oxford.[1] The farm was sold the site was unoccupied until 1860 when the college architect, William Wilkinson, was commissioned to lay out the northern part of the estate. The street was named after William Juxon, who was President of St John's College from 1621 to 1633. He was also the Bishop of London and the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Building began in Juxon Street in 1876.[1] The houses were designed to provide small homes for middle-class families. Much of the north side of the street was bought by Lucy's Eagle Ironworks also just to the north to house its staff. Many of the houses have also been for rented to students. Some houses at the west end of the street were demolished and flats was constructed in their place. It is now a popular inner-city residential street with high prices and rents in the area.[3]

There used to be a ferry (with ferry house) and coal wharfs at the end of Juxon Street.[4]

Literature

Juxon Street features in the 2003 book Lyra's Oxford by Philip Pullman. Lyra visits the character Sebastian Makepeace who lives on the north side of Juxon Street in a house at the end of the street near the Eagle Ironworks and the Oxford Canal.[5]

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References
  1. "Juxon Street". Jericho Echo Online. Retrieved 14 December 2012. External link in |work= (help)
  2. Snow, Peter (1991). "The Walls of Jericho". Oxford Observed. John Murray. p. 206. ISBN 0-7195-4707-5.
  3. "Property to rent near Juxon Street, Oxford OX2". Zoopla. Retrieved 14 December 2012.
  4. Stewart, Sheila (1994). Ramlin Rose: The Boatwoman's Story. Oxford University Press. p. 126. ISBN 978-0192853028.
  5. Pullman, Philip (203). Lyra's Oxford. David Fickling Books, Random House. pp. 33–47.


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