THE HIGH, OXFORD

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Present and former pubs of Oxford’s High Street


There were three inns and about ten pubs in the High Street during the nineteenth century; more if you count pubs such as the Radcliffe Arms just off the High in Radcliffe Square. Today the only ones left are the Eastgate Hotel, the Mitre, the Chequers, and the Wheatsheaf.

Coaching Inns of the High
The Mitre 17–18 High Street Now a Beefeater Restaurant
The Greyhound On eastern corner of High Street junction with Longwall Demolished by Magdalen College in 1845
The Angel 79–85 High Street Closed in 1866. Most of the hotel was demolished to make way for the Examination Schools, but a part remains at 83–85 High Street
 
Pubs of the High
Queen’s Arms 48 High Street Closed by the end of the eighteenth century
Coach & Horses Behind the former 49 High Street Closed and demolished in 1901
Light Horseman Behind the former 51 High Street Closed in 1899
Demolished in 1901
Flying Horse / Eastgate 73 High Street
Rebuilt in 1900
Still open as a hotel
Wheatsheaf 129A High Street Still a pub
Chequers 131A High Street Still a pub
Vine (aka The Grapes 133 High Street Closed in 1905
Demolished in 1937
Market Vaults 134 High Street By 1881 to 1935
Fox 137 High Street Closed in 1882
Building now a shop
Red Lion 139 High Street Closed c.1850
Building demolished mid-1930s
[Jolly] Post Boys 140 High Street
to c.1850;
139 High Street
thereafter
When Morrells bought the lease of No. 139, they closed No. 140 and transferred the name to No. 139 next door; building demolished in mid-1930s

 

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Last updated: 17 November, 2008