Lonsdale Road is a residential road in Summertown, north Oxford, England. [1]
The road runs between Banbury Road to the west and the River Cherwell to the east. [2] To the south is Summer Fields School, a private preparatory school. St Michael and All Angels parish church is on the north side of Lonsdale Road, near the Banbury Road end. [3]
Lonsdale Road is named after the Earl of Lonsdale. [4] The road was named in 1905 although the first houses in the road were erected from 1902. [5]
There have been a number of notable residents of Lonsdale Road, especially scientists, including two Nobel Prize winners. [8] The following have been residents in the road:
Three of the houses in the road bear blue plaques. The Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board erected the plaques to Nikolaas Tinbergen [19] and Ludwig Guttmann. [20] The third, to John Herivel, is a private one created and installed by his daughter Susan. [21]
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