{{Short description|Residential road in North Oxford, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2016}} {{Use British English|date=December 2016}} {{Infobox street | name = Bevington Road | native_name = | marker_image = | image = BevingtonRoadSouthWest.JPG | caption = Houses on the south side of Bevington Road, at the west (Woodstock Road) end | other_name = | former_names = Horse and Jockey Road | postal_code = OX2 6LH | addresses = | length_m = | length_ft = | length_mi = 0.1 | length_km = | length_ref = <ref>{{cite web|title=Driving directions to Bevington Rd|url=https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?saddr=Bevington+Rd&daddr=Bevington+Rd&hl=en&sll=51.762647,-1.262454&sspn=0.000968,0.00247&geocode=FS3XFQMdK8Ps_w%3BFTHVFQMd5Lns_w&t=h&mra=dme&mrsp=1&sz=19&z=19|publisher=Google Maps|accessdate=30 September 2013}}</ref> | width = | location = | client = | maint = | coordinates = | direction_a = west | terminus_a = {{jct|country=GBR|A|4144|name1= }} | direction_b = east | terminus_b = {{jct|country=GBR|A|4165|name1= }} | junction = | commissioning_date = | construction_start_date = | completion_date = | inauguration_date = <!-- {{Start date|df=yes|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | demolition_date = | north = | south = | west = | east = }}
'''Bevington Road''' is a residential road in central North Oxford, England.<ref name="hinchcliffe">{{cite book | title=North Oxford | author=Hinchcliffe, Tanis |year=1992 | publisher=Yale University Press | location=New Haven & London | pages=26, 30, 44, 49, 55, 73, 86, 95, 106, 191, 219–220 | isbn=0-14-071045-0}}</ref><ref name="hibbert">{{cite book | title=The Encyclopaedia of Oxford | publisher=Macmillan | chapter=Bevington Road | year=1988 | page=41 | isbn=0-333-39917-X | editor-last=Hibbert |editor-first=Christopher |editor-link=Christopher Hibbert }}</ref>
The road runs between Woodstock Road (opposite Observatory Street) to the west and Banbury Road to the east. Winchester Road leads north from halfway along Bevington Road. The road was previously known as '''Horse and Jockey Road'''.<ref name="hinchcliffe" /> A public house opposite the eastern end of the road on Woodstock Road on the corner with St Bernard's Road, called the ''Horse and Jockey'', was a reminder of this name.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/browniebear/4444344082/ | title=The Horse & Jockey, Woodstock Road, Oxford | accessdate=3 April 2011 | publisher=Flickr}}</ref> In the 1850s there was a plan to run a railway line just to the north of the road, but this never materialised.
The houses are in the traditional North Oxford brick-built Victorian Gothic style and date from 1865 to 1875.<ref name="hinchcliffe" /> Plots on the south side of the road were sold in August 1865 by St John's College, which own much of the land in the area. Architects of the houses include Frederick Codd and William Wilkinson.<ref name="pevsner">{{cite book | title=The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire |last1=Sherwood |first1=Jennifer |last2=Pevsner |first2=Nikolaus |authorlink2=Nikolaus Pevsner | year=1974 | publisher=Penguin Books | page=319 | isbn=0-14-071045-0}}</ref>
To the south is St Anne's College, one of the former women's colleges of the University of Oxford, fronting onto Woodstock Road and backing onto Banbury Road. All of the properties fronting onto the south side of Bevington Road are property of St Anne's College, and most are used for undergraduate accommodation.<ref>[http://www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk/about/buildings-and-grounds/restoring-the-bevington-road-gardens.html Restoring the Bevington Road Gardens] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011055241/http://www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk/about/buildings-and-grounds/restoring-the-bevington-road-gardens.html |date=11 October 2008 }}, St Annes's College, Oxford.</ref> St Anne's College began a regeneration project for the college-owned houses in July 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-08-21 |title=Bevington Road Regeneration {{!}} St Anne's College, Oxford |url=https://www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk/alumnae/bevington-road/ |access-date=2024-08-27 |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Transforming Bevington Road |url=https://transformingbevingtonroad.co.uk/ |access-date=2024-08-27 |website=Transforming Bevington Road |language=en-GB}}</ref>
To the north is St Antony's College, a graduate college of the University, between Woodstock Road and Winchester Road.
The Animal Behaviour Research Group of Oxford University, begun in 1949 on the arrival in Oxford of Niko Tinbergen, was located at 13 Bevington Road from 1961 to 1971.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://users.ox.ac.uk/~abrg/history.html | title=Animal Behaviour Research Group, University of Oxford | publisher=University of Oxford | accessdate=7 September 2020 }}</ref> Prominent members of the group included Richard Dawkins and Desmond Morris. Dawkins conducted programming experiments on an early PDP-8 mini-computer here.<ref>{{cite book| first=Richard | last=Dawkins | authorlink=Richard Dawkins | title=An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist | publisher=Bantam Press | date=2013 | isbn=978-0593070901 | pages=233–236 }}</ref>
The road is one-way to traffic from Banbury Road to Woodstock Road.
==Gallery== <gallery> File:Chapel of St Antonys College, Oxford.jpg|The chapel of St Antony's College on the north side of Bevington Road File:Wycliffe Hall from Bevington Road, Oxford.jpg|Wycliffe Hall viewed from the east end of Bevington Road File:Bevington Road Rear, St Anne's College, University of Oxford.jpg|The rear of the houses on the south side of Bevington Road in St Anne's College </gallery>
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