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Walton Manor, Oxford — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Walton Manor is a district of Oxford, with the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University Parks, and St Barnabas Church, Oxford on its ground.
About Walton Manor
Where to stay in Walton Manor
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
Banbury Road sets the pattern. Walton Manor is college and museum country, so a room here puts the Ashmolean Museum, the Pitt Rivers Museum, and Oxford University Parks within an easy walk of the front door. Hotels are thin among the terraces.
If you want the parks rather than the crowds, stay toward Polstead Road; if you want the museums, keep to the St Giles' Church, Oxford end.
About Walton Manor
What are the main landmarks in Walton Manor?
Three museums anchor the list. The Ashmolean Museum, the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, and the Pitt Rivers Museum stand at the head of it, with the Oxford University Press Museum on the same register. College fabric follows: Somerville College, Walton House, St Annes College, Hartland House, and Balliol College, Salvin Tower, Front Quadrangle.
St Giles' Church, Oxford, St Barnabas Church, Oxford, the Oxford Oratory, and Pusey House carry the religious side, with the Martyrs' Memorial among them. The Tower of the Winds closes it.
What is the history of Walton Manor?
Buildings carry the record here. Pusey House, The Judges Lodging, Osler House, and Wykeham House sit among the institutional houses that fill the district, together with St Johns College, North Range Including Chapel And Hall. The Martyrs' Memorial marks the events it was raised to commemorate.
St Giles' Fair belongs to the same street as St Giles' Church, Oxford, and the Oxford University Press Museum keeps the record of the press itself.
Where is Walton Manor?
Oxford University Parks give the district its open ground, while Banbury Road and Polstead Road carry its houses, among them 66, Banbury Road and The Limes.
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Updated September 2026