Mansfield Road is a road in central Oxford, England.[1][2] It runs north-south with two of Oxford University's colleges on it, Mansfield College and Harris Manchester College, and Queen Elizabeth House which houses the Oxford Department of International Development.
To the north is South Parks Road and the University's main Science Area. To the south is Holywell Street. Also off this road to the east near its southern end is Jowett Walk, named after Benjamin Jowett, a Master of Balliol College in Victorian times. On the northern corner with Jowett Walk is the former Geography Department of the University, since 2006 the Oxford Department of International Development (No. 3 Mansfield Road).
Savile Road is a cul-de-sac to the west with New College School (associated with New College in Holywell Street close by) just to the north. The University Club sports ground, for use by graduate students and University staff, is based on Mansfield Road, and hosts a football team named after the road, Mansfield Road Football Club,[3] playing in the Morrells of Oxford Premier League, and the Mansfield Road Cricket Club, or Oxford University Club Cricket Club (OUCCC).[4]
The Oxford University Club Hurriers (OUCH) were formerly known as the Mansfield Road Runners.[5]
Halifax House, a social club for people associated with Oxford University, was located to the east of the northern end of Mansfield Road at 8 South Parks Road from 1961.[6] The building has since been demolished to make way for new university science facilities. Evidence of Bronze Age barrows together with later prehistoric and early Roman field systems was found on the site.[7]
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- ^ Tyack, Geoffrey (1998). Oxford: An architectural guide. Oxford University Press. pp. 272, 342. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.
- ^ Mansfield Road Football Club, University of Oxford, UK.
- ^ Oxford University Club Cricket Club (OUCCC) Archived 2008-09-30 at the Wayback Machine, University of Oxford, UK.
- ^ Oxford University Club Hurriers (OUCH, formerly Mansfield Road Runners), University of Oxford, UK.
- ^ "Halifax House" (PDF). Oxford University Archives. University of Oxford, UK. Retrieved 15 June 2011.
{{cite web}}: External link in|work= - ^ Anthony, Sian (2005). "Prehistoric and Early Roman Field Systems, Halifax House, South Parks Road, Oxford" (PDF). Oxoniensia. 70: 129–139.
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