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Milestone (Abingdon 4, Oxford 2) Foxcombe Hill Milestone (Abingdon 5, Oxford 1) Outside 309 Abingdon Road Milestone (Oxford 3; Banbury 20) 423 Banbury Rd

Toll house, Folly Bridge Toll house, 566 Banbury Rd   Click on the pictures for more details

The Abingdon and Banbury Road in Oxford are a section of the ancient Saxon road that ran between Southampton and Northampton via Winchester, Newbury, Abingdon, Oxford, and Banbury. There were five milestones and two toll-houses in the area of Oxford, as follows:

• 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
• Exactly one mile north of the bridge, outside 21 Banbury Road, there must once have stood another milestone (Oxford 1 / Banbury 22)
• The next milestone used to stand near the junction of the Marston Ferry Road and Banbury Road (Oxford 2 / Banbury 21), but 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