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Juxon Street is a street in the north of Jericho, an inner suburb of Oxford, England.
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Map of Juxon St, Oxford OX2 6DJ, UK
Location
To the east is a junction with Walton Street. To the north are St Sepulchre's Cemetery, Lucy's Eagle Ironworks (now residential), and beyond that Walton Well Road. To the west is the Oxford Canal and beyond that the Castle Mill Stream. To the south is most of the rest of the suburb of Jericho and central Oxford.
History
Previously this area was part of the Walton Manor farm owned by St John's College, Oxford. The farm was sold the site was unoccupied until 1860 when the college architect, William Wilkinson, was commissioned to lay out the northern part of the estate. The street was named after William Juxon, who was President of St John's College from 1621 to 1633. He was also the Bishop of London and the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Building began in Juxon Street in 1876. The houses were designed to provide small homes for middle-class families. Much of the north side of the street was bought by Lucy's Eagle Ironworks also just to the north to house its staff. Many of the houses have also been for rented to students. Some houses at the west end of the street were demolished and flats was constructed in their place. It is now a popular inner-city residential street with high prices and rents in the area.
There used to be a ferry (with ferry house) and coal wharfs at the end of Juxon Street.
In 2015 the house pictured, 24 Juxon St., was inhabited by five university students who came to be known locally as the 'hoon-artists'; Fred Fooks, George Postlewaite, Max Bray, Keelan Kember and Lucien Ireland. Edward Alun-Jones, Alice Harman and Ela Stopford Sackville where neighbours of theirs further up the road. This household is famous for being the only case in history were neighbours complained that the student residents were too quiet.
Literature
Juxon Street features in the 2003 book Lyra's Oxford by Philip Pullman. Lyra visits the character Sebastian Makepeace who lives on the north side of Juxon Street in a house at the end of the street near the Eagle Ironworks and the Oxford Canal.