Districts of Oxford: Iffley, Risinghurst, Oxford, Oxford East, Oxford West and Abingdon, Cowley, Oxfordshire, Wolvercote, Summertown, Oxfor

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Iffley, Risinghurst, Oxford, Oxford East, Oxford West and Abingdon, Cowley, Oxfordshire, Wolvercote, Summertown, Oxford, Headington, Blackbird Leys, North Hinksey, Jericho, Oxford, Boars Hill, Osney, North Oxford, Littlemore, Godstow, New Marston, Binsey, Oxfordshire, Cutteslowe, Marston, Oxford, Headington Quarry, Park Town, Oxford, Grandpont, Port Meadow, Oxford, St. Ebbes, Botley, Oxfordshire, New Hinksey, Science Area, Oxford, Walton Manor, Norham Manor, Rose Hill, Oxfordshire, St Clement's, Oxford, Dean Court, Oxfordshire, Harcourt Hill, Barton, Oxfordshire, St John Street area, Holywell, Oxford, Waterways, Oxford, Headington Hill, Northway, Oxford, Wood Farm, Oxfordshire, Cumnor Hill, Donnington, Oxfordshire, Sunnymead. Excerpt: Risinghurst is an outlying residential area of Oxford, England, just outside the Eastern Bypass Road which forms part of the Oxford ring road. It is about 1 mile (1.6 km)east of the centre of Headington and 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Oxford city centre. It is part of the Risinghurst and Sandhills civil parish and is typical of housing estates built between the wars to house an increasingly prosperous working class who were moving into new urban centres-in this instance to take advantage of the burgeoning motor industry in Oxford. These estates offered decent housing, relatively sizeable gardens, a garage for a car and whilst Risinghurst isn't quite a garden city it has a sense of tranquility. (The countrification coming from the pebble-dash finish, the rough stone front wall, and a decent sized front garden where roses could be-and often were-grown.) During the 1930s some 600 homes were built in sets of semi-detached units; two rows of shops were built on Downside Road and Green Road along with two pubs, a small library but neither a school nor, initially, a church. So not quite a self-...