New Road, Oxford
View of New Road from the Oxford Castle mound
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| Length | 0.1 mi (0.2 km) |
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| Postal code | OX1 1 |
| west end | 51°45′10″N 1°15′50″W / 51.75279°N 1.26383°W |
| east end | 51°45′06″N 1°15′39″W / 51.75168°N 1.26079°W |
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| Inauguration | 1770 |
New Road is a street in west central Oxford, England. It links Park End Street and Worcester Street to the west with Queen Street and Castle Street to the east. To the south is Oxford Castle and the former Oxford Prison, now a Malmaison hotel. To the north is Nuffield College, a graduate college of Oxford University. At the eastern end on the south side is New County Hall, the headquarters of Oxfordshire County Council.
New Road was built in 1769-70 as a new turnpike road between central Oxford and the west. It bypassed the earlier and narrower Hythe Bridge Street to the north and St. Thomas's High Street (now St Thomas' Street) to the south. It was built through what remained of the northern outer ramparts and ditch of Oxford Castle, but Christ Church, Oxford preserved the 11th-century castle mount "as a venerable monument of antiquity".
From 1790 there was a coal wharf at the end of the Oxford Canal on the north side of New Road. Nuffield College was built on the site of the wharf between 1951 and 1960. The canal is now truncated on the north side of Hythe Bridge Street.
County Hall was built just east of Oxford Castle in 1840-41. The architect John Plowman designed it in a Norman Revival style with crenellations to complement the castle.
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