  The
area takes its name from a wayside pub in Walton Street which was first
recorded in 1668. Jericho may seem
an odd name for a suburb, especially of Oxford, but in the past it was widely
used to mean a remote place attached
to a town. Although Jericho is now seen as almost part of the city centre,
and as an increasingly upmarket suburb, this was not always the case. Three
centuries ago, when Oxford was largely confined within its old city walls,
it would have seemed rather out of the way, and until the last decades of
the 20th century, Jericho had a rather mixed reputation and many of its
older properties were condemned as slums
and demolished. |
