Chalfont Road

[2] Houses in the road were originally leased between 1890 and 1904 as part of the North Oxford estate of St John's College.

[1] The houses were nearly all designed by Harry Wilkinson Moore.

[1] The psychiatrist Anthony Storr (1920–2001), a Fellow of Green College, Oxford, lived in Chalfont Road.

[5] The computer scientists and mathematicians Sir Tony Hoare, Dana Scott, and Robin Wilson also lived in Chalfont Road.

[6] Chalfont Road is mentioned in the books Forgotten Life by Brian Aldiss[7] and Lost and Found by Valerie Mendes (step-mother of the director Sam Mendes).

View from the north end of Chalfont Road looking south.
The author Brian Aldiss OBE (born 1925).