Cornmarket Street (often called just Cornmarket by Oxonians) is a major shopping street and pedestrian precinct in Oxford, England that runs north-south between Carfax Tower and Magdalen Street.
Retailers in Cornmarket include:
- Austin Reed
- Boots
- Boswells of Oxford
- Burger King
- Clarks
- Fat Face
- Gap
- HMV
- H. Samuel
- KFC
- Lush
- McDonald's
- Moss
- Next
- Pret a Manger
- Republic
- River Island
- Starbucks
- Thorntons
- WHSmith
- The Works
To the east is the small Golden Cross arcade of small jewellery and craft shops in a historic courtyard, leading to the Covered Market. To the west is the indoor Clarendon Shopping Centre that connects in an L-shape to Queen Street.
Cornmarket was pedestrianised in 1999. In 2002, it was voted Britain's second worst street in a poll of listeners to the Today programme. The rating was due largely to the first attempt to repave the street in 2001. This work was a failure as the granite sets laid extensively cracked and the contractor went into liquidation. In 2003 it was repaved yet again and new benches installed, amidst reports of budgetary problems.
Read more about Cornmarket Street: History of Shops, St Michael At The Northgate, Adjoining Streets
Famous quotes containing the word street:
“You had such a vision of the street
As the street hardly understands;
Sitting along the bed’s edge, where
You curled the papers from your hair,
Or clasped the yellow soles of feet
In the palms of both soiled hands.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)