Norham Manor

The Norham Manor estate is a residential suburb in Oxford, England. It is part of central North Oxford.^[1] To the north is Park Town with its crescents, to the east is the River Cherwell, to the south are the University Parks and to the west is Walton Manor, on the other side of Banbury Road.

The architect William Wilkinson laid out the estate in the 1860s^[2][3] on land owned by St John's College, Oxford. The houses are large Victorian villas, many in Italianate and Gothic Revival styles. Wilkinson himself designed several of them, notably in Norham Gardens (built 1860–70).^[4] Others were designed by Charles Buckeridge (built 1862–66)^[4] and Frederick Codd.

Although originally intended as a residential area, Norham Gardens has hosted a number of educational institutions.

Sources and further reading

• Eleanor Chance; Christina Colvin; Janet Cooper; C.J. Day; T.G. Hassall; Nesta Selwyn (1979). Crossley, Alan; Elrington, C.R. (eds.). Victoria County History: A History of the County of Oxford, Volume 4.
• Hinchcliffe, Tanis (1992). North Oxford. New Haven:
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• Sherwood, Jennifer;
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• Tyack, Geoffrey (1998). Oxford An Architectural Guide. Oxford & New York:
  ISBN 0-19-817423-3
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