Walton Street: the former numbers of the part called Walton Place
Until the mid 1850s the section of Walton Street on the west side as far north as Oxford University Press (the present Nos. 4 to 35) was called Walton Place. (Walton Place is sometimes described as Walton Street early in the 1850s but with the old Walton Place numbers.) Walton Place was in St Thomas's parish.
The table below correlates the Walton Place numbers in the census of 1851 with the Walton Street numbers in that of 1861. Many people moved elsewhere between these two censuses, but where the names were the same the entry is in bold.
1851 census |
1861 census |
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1 Walton Street (Hastings) |
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2 Walton Street (Austin) |
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3 Walton Street (Johnson) |
Here is Worcester Place, whose census listings intervene at this point |
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1 Walton Place (Whitlock) |
4 Walton Street (Whitlock) |
2 Walton Place (Hooper) |
5 Walton Street (Hooper) |
3 Walton Place (Birkenshaw) |
6 Walton Street (Leonard) |
4 Walton Place (Waite) |
7 Walton Street (Jacks) |
5 Walton Place (Brooks) |
8 Walton Street (Kirtland) |
6 Walton Place (Lovell) |
9 Walton Street (Lovell) |
7 Walton Place (Smith) |
10 Walton Street (Smith) |
8 Walton Place (Banting) |
11 Walton Street (Way) |
9 Walton Place (Weaving) |
12 Walton Street (Curtis) |
10 Walton Place (Fletcher) |
13 Walton Street (Fletcher) |
11 Walton Place (Chilton) |
14 Walton Street (Solloway) |
12 Walton Place (Jardine) |
15 Walton Street (Jardine) |
Here is Worcester Terrace, renamed Richmond Road in about 1899 The house numbers of Richmond Road in the 1901 census |
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13 Walton Place (Alden) |
16 Walton Street (Alden) |
14 Walton Place (Dobney) |
17 Walton Street (Gardner) |
15 Walton Place (Luck) |
18 Walton Street (Hall) |
16 Walton Place (Morrell) |
19 Walton Street (Harris) |
17 Walton Place (East) |
20 Walton Street (uninhabited) |
18 Walton Place (Warren) |
21 Walton Street (Cook) |
19 Walton Place (Round) |
22 Walton Street (Sandell) |
20 Walton Place (Arnett) |
23 Walton Street (Dobney) |
21 Walton Place (Wilson) |
24 Walton Street (Morley) |
22 Walton Place (Carr) |
25 Walton Street (Carr) |
23 Walton Place (Watkins) |
26 Walton Street (Thompson) |
24 Walton Place (Gadney) |
27 Walton Street (Gadney) |
Here is Walton Crescent |
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25 Walton Place (Arnatt) |
28 Walton Street (Turrell) |
26 Walton Place (Bennett) |
29 Walton Street (Cooper) |
27 Walton Place (Stratton) |
30 Walton Street (Arnett) |
28 Walton Place (uninhabited) |
31 Walton Street (Florey) |
29 Walton Place (Jones) |
32 Walton Street (Payne) |
30 Walton Place (Michaux) |
33 Walton Street (Michaux) |
31 Walton Place (Matthews) |
34 Walton Street (James) |
32 Walton Place (Couling) |
35 Walton Street (Jacks) |
Here are the Clarendon Press buildings (now Oxford University Press) and Great Clarendon Street |
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Nineteenth-century street signs are hyphenated and a number of them survive in Oxford, including the ones below. The Walton Street sign probably dates from the mid-1850s, but the Worcester Place one could be earlier, as that road name did not change. There is also another hyphenated street sign further north on Walton Street at the corner of Walton Crescent.
Today street signs are not usually fixed to buildings but are mounted on legs set into the pavement. The two signs below are at the north end of Walton Street. The first one is the type of street sign used in the mid- to late twentieth century, while the second one includes the stylized version of an ox crossing a ford, the logo introduced by the city council in the late twentieth century that replaced the city's coat of arms.
