Cutteslowe
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Cutteslowe is a suburb of north Oxford, England, between Sunnymead and the northern bypass (the A40, completed in 1935), and a little beyond. Between 1934 and 1959 it was the location of two very contentious barriers, the Cutteslowe Walls, designed to keep council house tenants in The Cutteslowe Estate from entering a development of private houses between Cutteslowe and the Banbury Road. After several unofficial attempts, including ones involving tanks, they were eventually officially demolished following escalating public protests.
Just beyond the bypass lies Cutteslowe Park which was established as a public space in the 1930s.
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The Northernmost wall was across Wolsey Rd and divided it from Carlton Rd. Aldrich Rd is the site of the Southernmost wall which divided it from Wentworth Rd. A small fragment of the Aldrich Rd wall existed in a private garden until the 1980s. A blue plaque has now been erected close to the site of the Southernmost wall.
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- Archive images of the walls
- Collison P: The Cutteslowe Walls: A Study in Social Class. Faber and Faber, London, 1963. ISBN 0-571-05380-7
