# Magdalen Street > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Magdalen_Street > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Magdalen_Street.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalen_Street > Source revision: 1318401567 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Street in central Oxford, England For the street in Cambridge, see [Magdalene Street](/source/Magdalene_Street). [St Mary Magdalen church](/source/St_Mary_Magdalen's_Church%2C_Oxford) seen from Magdalen Street West Location of Magdalen Street within central Oxford View of the [Martyrs' Memorial](/source/Martyrs'_Memorial) with the [Randolph Hotel](/source/Randolph_Hotel%2C_Oxford) and [Taylor Institute](/source/Taylor_Institute) behind at the north end of Magdalen Street. **Magdalen Street** is a short shopping street in central [Oxford](/source/Oxford), England, just north of the original north gate in the city walls.[1] Traditionally, the name of the street is pronounced [/ˈmæɡdəlɪn/](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English) and not as the name of the [Magdalen College](/source/Magdalen_College%2C_Oxford), which is always [/ˈmɔːdlɪn/](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English).[2] At the southern end, Magdalen Street meets [Cornmarket Street](/source/Cornmarket_Street) continuing to the south, [Broad Street](/source/Broad_Street%2C_Oxford) to the east and [George Street](/source/George_Street%2C_Oxford) to the west. At the northern end it continues as [St Giles'](/source/St_Giles'_Street%2C_Oxford) to the north, with [Beaumont Street](/source/Beaumont_Street) to the west. To the west are shops. The street was the location of Oxford's leading department store for many years, [Elliston & Cavell](/source/Elliston_%26_Cavell). It later became a [Debenhams](/source/Debenhams) store. On the northern corner of Beaumont Street is the [Macdonald Randolph Hotel](/source/Macdonald_Randolph_Hotel), widely considered to be Oxford's leading hotel. To the east is a historic church, [St Mary Magdalen](/source/St_Mary_Magdalen's_Church%2C_Oxford), originally established in [Saxon](/source/Anglo-Saxons) times.[3] Beyond that is **Magdalen Street East** and [Balliol College](/source/Balliol_College%2C_Oxford). North of the church is the [Martyrs' Memorial](/source/Martyrs'_Memorial), commemorating the [Oxford Martyrs](/source/Oxford_Martyrs). [Thornton's Bookshop](/source/Thornton's_Bookshop) opened on Magdalen Street in 1835 and was located here until 1840, from 1853 to 1863. [St Giles' Fair](/source/St_Giles'_Fair), held at the beginning of September each year and mainly in St Giles' to the north, extends into Magdalen Street. During the 1930s, the poet [John Betjeman](/source/John_Betjeman) noted that: *It is about the biggest fair in England. The whole of St Giles' and even Magdalen Street by [Elliston and Cavell's](/source/Elliston_and_Cavell's) right up to and beyond the War Memorial, at the meeting of the [Woodstock](/source/Woodstock_Road_(Oxford)) and [Banbury](/source/Banbury_Road) roads, is thick with [freak shows](/source/Freak_show), [roundabouts](/source/Carousel), [cake-walks](/source/Cakewalk_(carnival_game)), [the whip](/source/The_Whip_(ride)), and the [witching waves](/source/Witching_Waves).*[4] ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-hibbert_1-0)** [Hibbert, Christopher](/source/Christopher_Hibbert), ed. (1988). "Magdalen Street". *[The Encyclopaedia of Oxford](/source/The_Encyclopaedia_of_Oxford)*. [Macmillan](/source/Macmillan_Publishers). p. 237. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-333-39917-X](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-333-39917-X). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Jones, Daniel, eds. P.Roach, J.Setter and J.Esling *Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary*, 18th Edition, 2011, Cambridge University Press 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [History](http://www.stmarymagdalenoxford.org.uk/history.cfm) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20100311043214/http://www.stmarymagdalenoxford.org.uk/history.cfm) 2010-03-11 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine), [St Mary Magdalen Church, Oxford](http://www.stmarymagdalenoxford.org.uk/). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Alison Petch, [Calendar related artefacts: St Giles Fair](http://england.prm.ox.ac.uk/englishness-st-giles-fair.html), [England: The Other Within](http://england.prm.ox.ac.uk/), [Pitt Rivers Museum](/source/Pitt_Rivers_Museum), Oxford, UK. [51°45′17″N 1°15′33″W / 51.7548°N 1.2591°W / 51.7548; -1.2591](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Magdalen_Street¶ms=51.7548_N_1.2591_W_scale:1000_region:GB) This Oxfordshire location article is a stub. 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