Aristotle Lane leads off to the west over the Oxford Canal towards Port Meadow.

[3] Hayfield Road was developed as part of the North Oxford estate of St John's College.

[8] The houses in Hayfield Road were designed by Harry Wilkinson Moore and were all leased in 1887.

[1] St Margaret's Institute Community Centre[9] was the first building constructed on Polstead Road, close to Hayfield Road, following a subscription by parishioners of St Philip and St James Church in 1889 "for the building of a Working Men's Institute, 'to provide rational amusement and instruction for working men of any creed, sect, or opinions, who may thus be kept out of public houses'".

[8] The Anchor public house[10][11][12] featured in the Inspector Morse episode "Death is Now My Neighbour".