| Introduction |
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| North Oxford is generally regarded as one of England's
finest Victorian suburbs. The area boundaries are the river Cherwell to
the east, the Oxford Canal to the west, St. Giles' Church to the south and
Summertown to the north. Development began on a small scale before 1850
and continued until 1930 but most houses were built and the character of
the suburb was established between 1850 and 1914. |
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| North Oxford is famously middle class and it is commonly
held that the area was built for newly-married University dons and that
the houses are all built in a Domestic
Gothic style with lots of gables,
pointed headed windows and ironwork finials.
The truth, as we shall show, is more complex. |
