Ox.Net - Directions to Fun Places

And here we have directions to places where oxnet people tend to meet up. See the top page to find out when we will be where.

Pubs

• Bookbinders':
  • Kake says: Go up Walton Street from town (or Little Clarendon Street), pass OUP on your left, and turn immediately left down Great Clarendon Street. Go past a park and Nellie's on your right, pass Albert Street and School Court, then turn right onto a street which is probably Canal Street but might not be and isn't labelled anyway. Go past a tall church tower thing, and the Bookbinders' is on your right.
  • CRB's pub review
• Gardeners Arms:
  • Kake says: Go up Woodstock Road from town. Pass the Horse and Jockey pub on left. The next left is a very small roadway which looks like someone's drive, but it will be labelled Plantation Road. Go along this road, and just before you decide there can't possibly be a pub there, you will see the Gardeners Arms on the right.
  • Kake's pub review
  • CRB's pub review
• Lamb & Flag:
  • Kake says: It's on St Giles, on the right as you come from town.
  • Kake's (very out of date) pub review
  • CRB's pub review
• Radcliffe Arms:
  • Ganesh says: From the MI [Maths Institute], cross St Giles and go down Little Clarendon Street. Turn right onto Walton St and keep going until you get to Cranham St on the left. The RA is at the other end of that.
  • Tim Ricketts adds: No it isn't. It's just under half way along (on the corner with Cranham Terrace).
  • rejs wonders pedantically: why would anyone want to start from the Mathematical Institute in the first place? He then more helpfully points out to non-mathematicians that it's at the top end of St. Giles near the end of Keble Road and adds links to a map and an alternative map.
  • Kake's pub review
  • CRB's pub review
• The Victoria:
  • Kake says: it's roughly where Walton Street turns into Kingston Road, just opposite Walton Well Road. It's actually on the corner of Kingston Road and the road that comes across from Woodstock Road beside the Horse and Jockey. (For those who don't know where Kingston Road is: it's what Walton Street turns into when you get far enough away from the town centre.)
  • Kake's pub review
  • CRB's pub review
• The Red Lion, Wolvercote:
  • If searching for (the Wolvercote version of) The White Hart, follow these directions, and it's then more or less next door, according to Alan.
  • Alan Iwi says: Here are some simple directions, and some optional variations:
    • A) Go along Woodstock Road to the Wolvercote roundabout at the top, turn *sharp* left at the roundabout onto Godstow Road, follow road over railway bridge and it's straight ahead of you at the point where the road bends round to the left.
    • Or B) To avoid roundabout, turn left off Woodstock Road onto First Turn, shortly before the ringroad. Then right into Mere Road, down the hill and left onto Godstow Road at the bottom, continue as (A).
    • Or C) Cycle along the canal towpath. (NB The towpath improves in quality north of Frenchay Road, so you may wish to go via Walton St etc as far as Frenchay Road before joining the canal.) Keep going on the towpath until you reach Wolvercote Lock, which is just after a pair of bridges. Come up the steps to your left, taking you up onto the railway bridge described in (A). Go over the railway and continue as (A).
    • Or D) Take a bus. Before 6.30pm it's the 60, starting on Magdalen Street by what was Debenhams, next stop is on Woodstock Road outside the Radcliffe Infirmary. After 6.30pm it's the 60A, starting from the same place but going via Beaumont Street / Walton Street. Either way, the return fare is 1.50 and the bus route goes straight past the pub.
  • Geraint adds:
    • Or Ci) From Oxford, as opposed to North Oxford, head out along the Botley Road as far as the grim bit under the western by-pass flyover just by Elms Rise. Turn sharp right immediately outside the ring-road up a narrow path which climbs up the side of the by-pass embankment, and follow your nose. (Admittedly, this involves negotiating a crossing of the -- is it the new A34? - which can be difficult at peak times, but after that you're on the old back road along the edge of the Wytham estate, and if you resist the siren temptation to cycle off this onto the by-pass at the Hinksey junction you have the road almost to yourself.)
  • CRB's review of The Red Lion
  • CRB's review of The White Hart

Outside Venues

• University Parks, by the Pond:
  • David Sheldon says: north east.
  • rols says: Head down from parks road to the bridge across the river, turn left. Walk about 100 yards. Don't cross the bridge before turning left.

College Venues

• Arco block, Keble:
  • Kake says: From the front gate of Keble, look right and head for the corner of the quad diagonally opposite you. You'll see a big pretty metal gate. Go through this, and Arco block is directly in front of you. It's the one which looks like it has architects come and visit to look at it.