Leckford Road
St Philip and St James Church
in the distance.Leckford Road is a road in
Woodstock Road
to the east.
Location
To the north halfway along is a junction with
St Philip and St James Church with its dominating spire, now used as the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies
.
History
The houses in Leckford Road were leased between 1873 and 1885 as part of the St John's College North Oxford estate.[1]
The most famous resident of the road was
Rhodes Scholar at University College, Oxford from 1968 to 1970.[2][3] He shared the house with Frank Aller, Aller's girlfriend Jan (Jana) Brenning, David Satter, and Strobe Talbott (later an editor of Time
magazine).
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother in 1973.[4]
Leckford Road is the former location of St Philip and St James Church of England Aided Primary School ("Phil and Jim" or "Pip and Jim"), now in Navigation Way.d'Overbroeck's College, an independent day school for boys and girls between 11 and 16.[6]
Gallery
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View east along Leckford Road to the former churchSt Philip and St James Church on Woodstock Road, now the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies. -
Woodlands Nursing Home at the eastern end of Leckford Road on the corner with Woodstock Road. -
Thed'Overbroeck's CollegeLeckford Place site on the south side of Leckford Road, east of Leckford Place. -
President Bill Clinton, a former resident of 46 Leckford Road.
See also
- Leckford, a village in Hampshire
- Marian Allen, writer
References
- ^ ISBN 0-14-071045-0.
- ^ Hoffman, Matthew, The Bill Clinton we knew at Oxford: Apart from smoking dope (and not inhaling), what else did he learn over here? College friends share their memories with Matthew Hoffman, The Independent, 11 October 1992.
- ^ "Clinton digs for sale". This is Oxfordshire. 13 November 2001. Retrieved 4 September 2012.
{{cite web}}: External link in|publisher= - ISBN 1-899536-33-7.
- ^ St Philip and St James Church of England Aided Primary School, Oxford, UK.
- d'Overbroeck's College, Oxford, UK.