The road was created between Church Cowley and Iffley Turn in 1853.
It has a church (the Parish Church of St James and the Apostle) and graveyard (Rose Hill Cemetery).
It separates the area of Florence Park from Cowley and Littlemore.
House prices here are around average for the city of Oxford.
[2] The comedian Ronnie Barker lived in the road as a boy from the age of four, when his family moved there, and a blue plaque by the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board commemorates this.