{{Short description|Road in North Oxford, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2017}} {{Use British English|date=February 2017}} {{Infobox street | name = Bardwell Road | marker_image = | native_name = <!-- {{native name}} or {{native name list}} --> | alternate_name = | image = BardwellRd01.JPG | image_size = 180px | image_alt = View of houses in Bardwell Road | image_map = | caption = The Banbury Road end of Bardwell Road | map_type = | map_size = | map_caption = | map_alt = | other_name = | former_names = Greenditch | part_of = | namesake = | type = Street | owner = Formerly St John's College, Oxford | maint = | length = | length_m = | length_ft = | length_km = | length_mi = | length_ref = | length_notes = | width = | area = | addresses = | location = Oxford, England | quarter = North Oxford | postal_code = OX2 | coordinates = {{coord |51.7679|-1.2583|region:GB|display=inline,title}} | direction_a = West | terminus_a = Banbury Road | direction_b = East | terminus_b = Chadlington Road | junction = | north = Northmoor Road, Charlbury Road, Linton Road | east = Chadlington Road, Dragon School | south = Dragon Lane, Park Town | west = Banbury Road (A4165), Wychwood School | main_contractor = | cost = | references = | commissioning_date = | construction_start_date = 1890s | completion_date = | inauguration_date = <!-- {{Start date|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | demolition_date = | designer = | known_for = Schools | status = | website = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} --> }} '''Bardwell Road''' is a residential road in Oxford, England. It is located in North Oxford off the Banbury Road, within the area of Oxford once owned by St John's College, Oxford.<ref name="hinchcliffe">{{cite book | title=North Oxford | last=Hinchcliffe | first=Tanis | year=1992 | publisher=Yale University Press | location=New Haven & London | chapter=Bardwell Rd | pages=218–219 | isbn=0-14-071045-0}}</ref> The road is known for its schools, especially the Dragon School.<ref name="hibbert">{{cite book | title=The Encyclopaedia of Oxford | publisher=Macmillan | chapter=Bardwell Road | year=1988 | page=33 | isbn=0-333-39917-X | editor-last=Hibbert |editor-first=Christopher |editor-link=Christopher Hibbert }}</ref>
==History== The road is named after Bardwell in Suffolk, a "living" of St John's College from 1635.<ref name="hibbert" /> It was originally approximately on the line of Greenditch, the former name of St Margaret's Road, where historically those who had committed capital crimes were executed.<ref name="hibbert" />
Houses on Bardwell Road were largely built during the 1890s.<ref name="hinchcliffe" /> Architects included Harry Wilkinson Moore, Herbert Quinton, and Messrs Radclyffe & Watson.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/sites/default/files/file/history/oxonbuildings.pdf | title=Oxfordshire Buildings Index | publisher=Oxfordshire County Council | location=UK | accessdate=19 June 2023 }}</ref> The road lies on Oxford Clay at a depth of three feet, as discussed in ''Oxoniensia''.<ref>{{cite journal| url=https://www.oxoniensia.org/volumes/1954/grensted.pdf | title=A Section of the Oxford Clay and Pleistocene Gravel in North Oxford | first=L. W. | last=Grensted | journal=Oxoniensia | year=1954 | pages=1–7 }}</ref>
==Schools== [[File:DragonSH01.JPG|thumb|left|School House at the Dragon School, on Bardwell Road]] Bardwell Road is the location of the Dragon School, a well-known preparatory school.<ref name="hibbert" /> The second headmaster, Charles Cotterill Lynam (known as the "Skipper"), took a building lease on land to the southeast of Bardwell Road in 1893.<ref name="hinchcliffe2">{{cite book | title=North Oxford | last=Hinchcliffe | first=Tanis | year=1992 | publisher=Yale University Press | location=New Haven & London | pages=182–184 | isbn=0-14-071045-0}}</ref> In 1894, Lynam's Oxford Preparatory School was established on this site. £4,000 was quickly raised through subscriptions from local parents for the erection of new school buildings.<ref>{{cite book | title=A Dragon Century: 1877–1977 | publisher=Blackwell's | year=1977 | author=Jaques, C. H. | pages=22–35 | chapter=III: To Bardwell Road }}</ref> The school moved from its previous location at 17 Crick Road within a year. The choice of its new location proved to be a wise one, and the school has prospered as the Dragon School on this site to the present day.
The '''Bardwell Road Centre''',<ref>{{cite web| url=http://bardwellroad.podomatic.com/ | title=Bardwell Road Centre Podcast | publisher=St Clare's College | location=Oxford, UK | accessdate=17 June 2023 }}</ref> one of the two locations of St Clare's College, is to be found here as well.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.dailyinfo.co.uk/places/educational-establishments/tutorial-colleges/t31-p1739/st-clares-college-bardwell-rd | title=St Clare's College (Bardwell Rd) | work=Daily Information | location=UK | accessdate=19 June 2023 }}</ref>
Wychwood School for girls is located on the southern corner of Bardwell Road and Banbury Road, at the western end.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://ukeducationguide.com/boarding-schools/wychwood-school/ | title=Wychwood School | work=UK Education Guide | accessdate=19 June 2023 }}</ref> On the north side of the road is the Preparatory School for Oxford High School,<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.goodschoolsguide.co.uk/schools/oxford-high-preparatory-school | title=Oxford High Preparatory School | work=The Good Schools Guide | location=UK | accessdate=19 June 2023 }}</ref> formerly the site of Greycotes School.<ref name="snow91">{{cite book| first=Peter | last=Snow | title=Oxford Observed | pages=159, 166, 169 | publisher=John Murray | year=1991 | isbn=0-7195-4707-5 }}</ref> Peter Snow notes the cars delivering and collecting school children in Bardwell Road, part of what he terms "Dragonland".<ref name="snow91" />
==Location== Northmoor Road and Charlbury Road lead north off Bardwell Road, and Chadlington Road continues north at the far eastern end from the Banbury Road, all leading to Linton Road. To the south is Park Town, connected via Dragon Lane along the edge of the Dragon School site.
Off the road at the eastern end is the Cherwell Boathouse,<ref name="hibbert" /> down a lane at the junction with Chadlington Road next to the Dragon School playing fields, where punts can be rented for use on the River Cherwell.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://cherwellboathouse.co.uk/ | title=Cherwell Boathouse | location=UK | accessdate=19 June 2023 }}</ref>
==Residents== Henry Underhill (1855–1921), the antiquarian and artist, lived at 20 Bardwell Road.<ref>{{cite journal| title=H. M. J. Underhill (1855–1921); Oxford Antiquarian, Artist, and ‘Provision Merchant’ | first=Megan | last=Price | url=https://oxoniensia.org/volumes/2008/price.pdf | year=2008 | journal=Oxoniensia | pages=99–119 | publisher=Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society }}</ref> Reginald Philip Capel (1886–1961), Mayor of Oxford 1944–5, lived at St John's Cottage in Bardwell Road.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/mayors/1836_1962/capel_reginald_1944.html | title=Reginald Philip Capel (1886–1961) | work=Oxford History: Mayors & Lord Mayors | location=UK | accessdate=19 June 2023 }}</ref>
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