Cutteslowe
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| Cutteslowe | |
  Cutteslowe shown within Oxfordshire |
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| OS grid reference | |
|---|---|
| District | Oxford |
| Shire county | Oxfordshire |
| Region | South East |
| Constituent country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | OXFORD |
| Postcode district | OX2 |
| Police | Thames Valley |
| Fire | Oxfordshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
| European Parliament | South East England |
| UK Parliament | Oxford West and Abingdon |
| List of places: UK • England • Oxfordshire | |
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[citation needed], they were eventually officially demolished following escalating public protests.
The northernmost wall was across Wolsey Road and divided it from Carlton Road. Aldrich Road is the site of the southernmost wall which divided it from Wentworth Road. A small fragment of the Aldrich Road wall existed in a private garden until the 1980s. A blue plaque was erected by the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board close to the site of the southernmost wall.
Just beyond the bypass lies Cutteslowe Park which was established as a public space in the 1930s.
[edit] References
- 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
