Belbroughton Road

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Belbroughton Road is a residential road in the suburb of North Oxford, England. The road runs east from Banbury Road. At the other end is Oxford High School, a girls' school. South from the road about half way along is Northmoor Road, where J.R.R. Tolkien lived for a while in the 1930s. At the eastern end is Charlbury Road.

The road was mentioned in the first line of a poem (May-Day Song for North Oxford) by Sir John Betjeman:

Belbroughton Road is bonny, and pinkly bursts the spray

Of prunus and forsythia across the public way,

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[edit] References

• Hinchcliffe, Tanis, North Oxford. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1992. ISBN 0-300-05184-0.