Walton Well Road

Walton Well Road is a road, about 400 metres (a quarter mile) long, near the centre of Oxford, England. It provides a link from central Oxford to Port Meadow.

The road marks the northern edge of the district known as Jericho. At the eastern end is the north end of Walton Street and the south end of Kingston Road at the junction with St Bernard's Road. The western end is reached by a bridge (Walton Well Road Bridge) spanning the Oxford Canal and also the railway line. Here there is access to Port Meadow and the Thames Path, with a car park run by Oxford City Council. About halfway along the road is a junction with Longworth Road and Southmoor Road. To the south, between the canal and the railway line, a new residential road, William Lucy Way, was developed around 2006, on the other side of the Oxford Canal from the former Lucy's Eagle Ironworks site. To the south are modern residential apartments on the former site of the Eagle Ironworks, St Sepulchre's Cemetery and beyond that Juxon Street.

The Oxford-Man Institute, a research institute of Oxford University established in 2007, is located at Eagle House in Walton Well Road.

The road is on the site of a spring known as Walton Well (or Bruman's Well) At the location of the spring, there is a drinking fountain in the road, with a plaque dated 1885. It was erected by William Ward, who was Mayor of Oxford in 1851 and 1861. The fountain was designed by the architect Harry Wilkinson Moore and carved in Portland stone by McCulloch of London.

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