Parks Road

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Parks Road is a road in Oxford, England. It runs north-south between the Banbury Road and Norham Gardens at the northern end and the junction with Broad Street, Holywell Street and Catte Street to the south.

At the northern end, the road runs alongside the University Parks, hence its name. Opposite the Parks is the former home of the Irish novelist Joyce Cary, who lived here with his family from 1920 until his death in 1957. This is now recorded with a blue plaque.

The road adjoins South Parks Road to the east about half way along. Parks Road, South Parks Road and the Parks surround the main Science Area of the University of Oxford. The Clarendon Laboratory (physics), Department of Engineering Science (including the dominating 1960s Thom Building) and the Department of Materials are all on Parks Road in the main science area. The Oxford University Computing Laboratory is opposite the Parks on the corner with Keble Road.

Keble College (south of Keble Road and north of Museum Road) and Wadham College are on Parks Road; St John's College and Trinity College both back onto the road.

The Oxford University Museum of Natural History is on the east side of Parks Road opposite Keble College. Just to the south on the corner with South Parks Road is the Radcliffe Science Library. The right hand half of the grass area in front of the museum has a large basement reading room for the library underneath it.

At the southern end are the new Bodleian Library building on the corner with Broad Street to the west and the King's Arms public house on the corner with Holywell Street to the east.

The road was formerly known as Park Street.

[edit] External links

• Virtual Tour of Oxford including Parks Road