{{Short description|Road in North Oxford, England}} {{Other places|Moreton (disambiguation){{!}}Moreton}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2018}} {{Use British English|date=January 2018}} {{Infobox street | name = Moreton Road | marker_image = | native_name = <!-- {{native name}} or {{native name list}} --> | alternate_name = | image = Moreton Road, Oxford.JPG | image_size = | image_alt = View along road | image_map = | caption = View along Morton Road | map_type = | map_size = | map_caption = | map_alt = | other_name = | former_names = | part_of = | namesake = Moreton, Oxfordshire | type = | owner = | maint = | length = | length_m = 264 | length_ft = | length_km = | length_mi = | length_ref = | length_notes = | width = | area = | addresses = | location = Oxford, England | quarter = North Oxford | postal_code = OX2 7AX | coordinates = {{Coord|51.773463|-1.265445|region:GB_type:landmark|display=inline,title}} | direction_a = West | terminus_a = Woodstock Road (A4144) | direction_b = East | terminus_b = Banbury Road (A4165)<br/>Marston Ferry Road (B4495) | junction = | north = Beech Croft Road | east = Banbury Road (A4165) | south = Lathbury Road | west = Woodstock Road (A4144) | main_contractor = | cost = | references = | commissioning_date = | construction_start_date = | completion_date = | inauguration_date = <!-- {{Start date|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | demolition_date = | designer = | known_for = Carmelite Convent | status = | website = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} --> | browse = | embedded = }} '''Moreton Road''' is a residential road in the Oxford suburb of North Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.
==Location== The road runs east–west. At the western end of the road is a junction with Woodstock Road (A4144) and at the eastern end is a junction with Banbury Road (A4165), the two major arterial roads out of Oxford to the north. The road continues east slightly to the north on the Marston Ferry Road (B4495). To the south is Lathbury Road and to the north is Beech Croft Road. It lies to the north of the original North Oxford development by St John's College, Oxford, but since it is south of Summertown, it is often considered to be part of Central North Oxford, with high house prices.<ref>{{cite news| title=Sold House Prices in Moreton Road | url=http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/li/sold_house_prices_street_list.detail.Moreton%20Road,,Oxford/ | newspaper=Oxford Mail | accessdate=11 September 2012 }}</ref>
On the corner of Moreton Road at 153 Banbury Road, there was a Carmelite Convent until 1987.<ref name="hibbert">{{cite book | title=The Encyclopaedia of Oxford | publisher=Macmillan | chapter=Banbury Road | year=1988 | page=32 | isbn=0-333-39917-X | editor-last=Hibbert |editor-first=Christopher |editor-link=Christopher Hibbert }}</ref> The main site of St Clare's, an independent international boarding school founded in 1953, is also located at 139 Banbury Road, between Lathbury Road and Moreton Road.<ref>{{cite web | title=Contact us | url=http://www.stclares.ac.uk/contactus.php | publisher=St Clare's, Oxford | accessdate=11 September 2012 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120621081754/http://www.stclares.ac.uk/contactus.php | archivedate=21 June 2012 | df=dmy-all }}</ref>
==Notable people== A number of Oxford University academics have lived in Moreton Road. Frederick Mason Brewer CBE FRIC (1903–1963), Head of the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory at the University of Oxford, and Mayor of Oxford during 1959–60,<ref>{{cite web| title=Frederick Mason Brewer: Mayor of Oxford 1959/60 | url=http://www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/mayors/1836_1962/brewer_frederick_1959.html | publisher=Oxford History | location=UK | work=Mayors & Lord Mayors | accessdate=11 September 2012 }}</ref> lived at 6 Moreton Road.<ref name="brewer">{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yDYxAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Moreton+Road%22 | page=23 | title=Directory of International Fellows: 1925–1960 | publisher=Commonwealth Fund, Division of International Fellowships | year=1960 }}</ref> The classical scholar and Fellow of University College, Oxford, George Cawkwell (1919–2019), and the legal scholar Sir Guenter Treitel (1928–2019), lived in Moreton Road.<ref name="kelly">{{cite book | title=Kelly's Directory of Oxford |year=1976 | publisher=Kelly's Directories |location=Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey | page=400 | edition=68th | chapter=Moreton Road}}</ref>
==In popular culture== Moreton Road features in the eponymous biography about the Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe, who won a scholarship to study at Oxford University,<ref name="skinner">{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PH6M8JqMGBUC&q=%22Moreton+Road%22&pg=PA231 | page=231 | title=Peter Sculthorpe | first=Graeme | last=Skinner | publisher=University of New South Wales Press | year=2007 | isbn=978-0868409412 }}</ref> and also in the novel ''Restless'' (winner of the Novel Award in the 2006 Costa Book Awards) by William Boyd.<ref name="boyd">{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=19_IS658XEoC&pg=PA101 | page=101 | title=Restless | author=William Boyd | author-link=William Boyd (writer) | publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing | date=2009 | isbn=978-1408807125 }}</ref>
==See also== * Moreton, Oxfordshire
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Category:Streets in Oxford
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