To the north are St Sepulchre's Cemetery, Lucy's Eagle Ironworks (now residential), and beyond that Walton Well Road.
Previously this area was part of the Walton Manor farm owned by St John's College, Oxford.
[1] The farm was sold the site was unoccupied until 1860 when the college architect, William Wilkinson, was commissioned to lay out the northern part of the estate.
Some houses at the west end of the street were demolished and flats was constructed in their place.
It is now a popular inner-city residential street with high prices and rents in the area.