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Grandpont

Area of Oxford, England

Field	Value
official_name	Grandpont
coordinates
label_position	left
os_grid_reference	SP510053
civil_parish	unparished
shire_district	Oxford
shire_county	Oxfordshire
region	South East England
country	England
post_town	Oxford
postcode_district	OX1
postcode_area	OX
dial_code	01865
constituency_westminster	Oxford East
website	[Oxford City Council](http://www.oxford.gov.uk/)

Grandpont is a mainly residential area in south Oxford, England. It is west of Abingdon Road, and consists mainly of narrow streets that run at right angles to the main road, with terraced late-Victorian and Edwardian houses.

It also contains the Grandpont Nature Park—a riverside park managed by Oxford City Council (). The park covers 7.4 acre and was created in 1985 on the site of a gas works that was demolished in 1960. The former railway bridge, used to carry coal from the main railway line across the River Thames to the older gas works in St Ebbes on the north bank, still stands, and is in use as a footbridge. A later bridge, Grandpont Bridge, provides a more direct pedestrian and cycle route across the river to St Ebbes.

History

The name of the area derives from the Grandpont, a medieval stone causeway now known to survive within the core of the modern Abingdon Road for a distance of at least 700 metres south of the city centre. The causeway may have been first built in the Anglo-Saxon era, and rebuilt in the late 11th century by the first Norman lord of Oxford, Robert D'Oyly I, crossing the low-lying ground south of the City, still very liable to winter flooding from the nearby River Thames.

In 1279 there were 62 houses in Grandpont. The suburb grew slowly in the following centuries, and extensive development did not take place until the 19th century. In 1844 the Great Western Railway opened Oxford's first railway station in what is now Western Road, and that stimulated development. One of the houses built there is Grandpont House named after the neighbourhood. Built for Sir William Elias Taunton, the Town Clerk of the city of Oxford, in 1785, his family controlled the house until Brasenose College acquired the house in 1847. Brasenose maintained the house until 1959 when it was purchased by the Netherhall Educational Association.

Until 1889 Grandpont was in Berkshire, although it was a tithing of the parish of St Aldate's, Oxford. The area was added to the municipal borough of Oxford and to Oxfordshire in 1889. The Church of England parish church of Saint Matthew, Grandpont was built in 1890, presumably as a chapel of ease. The church was consecrated by Bishop William Stubbs on Thursday October 29, 1891. It became a parish separate from St Aldate's in 1913.

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[http://www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk/2003-04/v16n3/05.shtml "What lies beneath"] {{webarchive. link. (2006-10-09 — Annie Dodd, ''[[Oxford Today]]'', 2004)
Crossley & Elrington, 1979, [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22808#s3 pages 284-295, section "Bridges"]
Hibbert, 1988, s.v. ''Grandpont''
(22 Mar 2014). "A historic house".
Crossley & Elrington, 1979, [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22806#s4 pages 260-264, section "Modern boundary extensions"]
Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 335
(31 October 1891). "General Summary of News". [[British Newspaper Archive]].

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