# Moreton Road
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{{Short description|Road in North Oxford, England}}
{{Other places|Moreton (disambiguation){{!}}Moreton}}
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| direction_a = West
| terminus_a = [Woodstock Road](/source/Woodstock_Road%2C_Oxford) (A4144)
| direction_b = East
| terminus_b = [Banbury Road](/source/Banbury_Road) (A4165)
[Marston Ferry Road](/source/Marston_Ferry_Road) (B4495)
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'''Moreton Road''' is a residential road in the [Oxford](/source/Oxford) suburb of [North Oxford](/source/North_Oxford), [Oxfordshire](/source/Oxfordshire), [United Kingdom](/source/United_Kingdom).
==Location==
The road runs east–west. At the western end of the road is a junction with [Woodstock Road](/source/Woodstock_Road%2C_Oxford) (A4144) and at the eastern end is a junction with [Banbury Road](/source/Banbury_Road) (A4165), the two major arterial roads out of [Oxford](/source/Oxford) to the north. The road continues east slightly to the north on the [Marston Ferry Road](/source/Marston_Ferry_Road) (B4495). To the south is [Lathbury Road](/source/Lathbury_Road) and to the north is [Beech Croft Road](/source/Beech_Croft_Road). It lies to the north of the original [North Oxford](/source/North_Oxford) development by [St John's College, Oxford](/source/St_John's_College%2C_Oxford), but since it is south of [Summertown](/source/Summertown%2C_Oxford), it is often considered to be part of Central North Oxford, with high house prices.[{{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](/source/Oxford_Mail) | accessdate=11 September 2012 }}]
On the corner of Moreton Road at 153 Banbury Road, there was a [Carmelite](/source/Carmelite) Convent until 1987.[{{cite book | title=[The Encyclopaedia of Oxford](/source/The_Encyclopaedia_of_Oxford) | publisher=[Macmillan](/source/Macmillan_Publishers) | chapter=Banbury Road | year=1988 | page=32 | isbn=0-333-39917-X | editor-last=Hibbert |editor-first=Christopher |editor-link=Christopher Hibbert }}] The main site of [St Clare's](/source/St_Clare's%2C_Oxford), an independent international [boarding school](/source/boarding_school) founded in 1953, is also located at 139 Banbury Road, between Lathbury Road and Moreton Road.[{{cite web | title=Contact us | url=http://www.stclares.ac.uk/contactus.php | publisher=[St Clare's, Oxford](/source/St_Clare's%2C_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 }}]
==Notable people==
A number of [Oxford University](/source/Oxford_University) academics have lived in Moreton Road. [Frederick Mason Brewer](/source/Frederick_Mason_Brewer) CBE [FRIC](/source/FRIC) (1903–1963), Head of the [Inorganic Chemistry](/source/Inorganic_Chemistry) Laboratory at the [University of Oxford](/source/University_of_Oxford), and [Mayor of Oxford](/source/Mayor_of_Oxford) during 1959–60,[{{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 }}] lived at 6 Moreton Road.[{{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](/source/Commonwealth_Fund), Division of International Fellowships | year=1960 }}] The [classical scholar](/source/classical_scholar) and [Fellow](/source/Fellow_(college)) of [University College, Oxford](/source/University_College%2C_Oxford), [George Cawkwell](/source/George_Cawkwell) (1919–2019), and the [legal scholar](/source/legal_scholar) Sir [Guenter Treitel](/source/Guenter_Treitel) (1928–2019), lived in Moreton Road.[{{cite book | title=Kelly's Directory of Oxford |year=1976 | publisher=[Kelly's Directories](/source/Kelly's_Directories) |location=Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey | page=400 | edition=68th | chapter=Moreton Road}}]
==In popular culture==
Moreton Road features in the eponymous biography about the Australian composer [Peter Sculthorpe](/source/Peter_Sculthorpe), who won a scholarship to study at [Oxford University](/source/Oxford_University),[{{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](/source/University_of_New_South_Wales_Press) | year=2007 | isbn=978-0868409412 }}] and also in the novel ''Restless'' (winner of the Novel Award in the [2006 Costa Book Awards](/source/2006_Costa_Book_Awards)) by [William Boyd](/source/William_Boyd_(writer)).[{{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](/source/Bloomsbury_Publishing) | date=2009 | isbn=978-1408807125 }}]
==See also==
* [Moreton, Oxfordshire](/source/Moreton%2C_Oxfordshire)
==References==
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==External links==
* {{commonscat inline}}
Category:Streets in Oxford
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