Milestones on Abingdon to Banbury Road

Oxford Milestones: Abingdon–Oxford–Banbury turnpike

Milestone at Foxcombe Road (Oxford 2, Abingdon 4)	Milestone at 309 Abingdon Road, Oxford (Oxford 1, Abingdon 5)	Milestone at 423 Banbury Road, Oxford (Oxford 2, Banbury 20)	The next eighteenth- century milestone is by the entrance to the public footpath between 118 and 120 Banbury Road, Kidlington . It is a Grade II listed structure (List Entry 1421245)
Toll house at Folly Bridge, Oxford		Toll house at 566 Banbury Road, Oxford

The Abingdon and Banbury Roads in Oxford are a section of the ancient Saxon road that ran between Southampton and Northampton via Winchester, Newbury, Abingdon, Oxford, and Banbury.

The Oxford to Banbury Turnpike Trust was created in 1755, and the following milestones and two toll-houses were in the area of Oxford:

There is a milestone on Foxcombe Hill, part of the road to Faringdon, turnpiked in 1755/6. (After 1815 the Hinksey Hill Trust shared its tollgate with the Folly Bridge Trustees.)
A milestone survives at the south end of the Abingdon Road
One mile north of this comes Folly Bridge, where the toll-house still stands
There should have been another milestone one mile north of the bridge (at approximately 21 Banbury Road), but there is no sign of its survival
The next milestone used to stand near the junction of the Marston Ferry Road and Banbury Road, but this was removed in 1970
The next milestone survives on the Banbury Road, just north of the roundabout
The next toll-house is a short distance to the north of that milestone
The next milestone is between 118 and 120 Banbury Road in Kidlington.

There was a toll-house south of Deddington, and a toll gate (known as Old Man's Gate) at Water Eaton. The above milestone marks eight miles from Oxford, six to Adderbury, and nine to Banbury. It has been moved from its original position, and can now be seen outside County Hall in New Road, Oxford.