Worcester Street - Location

Location

The street runs north-south in two sections that are separated for traffic. The northern section forms part of the A4144 road. It starts opposite the eponymous Worcester College, one of the colleges of the University of Oxford, at the junction with Beaumont Street and Walton Street. Worcester College occupies the entire western side of this portion of the street and Gloucester Green, the location of Oxford's bus station, is to the east. The Refugee Studies Centre, part of the University of Oxford’s Department of International Development, is also located here. The road continues round to the west as Hythe Bridge Street, past the Oxford Canal towards Oxford railway station.

The southern section runs between George Street and the junction of Park End Street and New Road at the southern end. Worcester Street Car Park, formerly a wharf for the loading and unloading of goods near the end of the Oxford Canal, is to the west. The land was intended to be used for part of Nuffield College, but budgetary constraints meant that only the site to the east of Worcester Street was developed. The canal used to continue under Worcester Street Bridge to a coal wharf in New Road. To the east at the southern end of Worcester Street is Nuffield College, a graduate college of Oxford University, built between 1951 and 1960 on the site of the coal wharf.

The Oxford Job Centre is at 7 Worcester Street.