Walton Street

Walton Street runs along the eastern edge of Jericho, the working-class Victorian suburb that grew from the 1820s on the land between the Oxford Canal and the city centre. It begins at the junction of Beaumont Street and Worcester Street by the main entrance of Worcester College and continues north — the alignment carries on as Kingston Road through Walton Manor.

Its dominant building is the Oxford University Press, whose neoclassical quadrangle on the west side was built between 1826 and 1830. The central block is by Daniel Robertson and the north and west wings by Edward Blore, with later twentieth-century extensions behind. OUP — "the largest university press in the world" — still has its principal office here. Opposite, on the same west side, stands the Phoenix Picturehouse at number 57, opened on 15 March 1913 as the North Oxford Kinema. The east side carries Freud, a café-bar in the former St Paul's Church, and Somerville College backs onto the street further north.

The southern half of the street has become one of Oxford's strongest concentrations of independent restaurants and cafés, with the Jericho Tavern — at number 56, a well-known live-music pub — and Branca among the anchors. Past the junction with Walton Well Road the street runs out toward the canal and Port Meadow.

Sources: Wikipedia: Walton Street, Oxford · Wikipedia: Oxford University Press · Wikipedia: Phoenix Picturehouse · OpenStreetMap