Magdalen Street

At the northern end it continues as St Giles' to the north, with Beaumont Street to the west.

The street was the location of Oxford's leading department store for many years, Elliston & Cavell.

To the east is a historic church, St Mary Magdalen, originally established in Saxon times.

During the 1930s, the poet John Betjeman noted that: It is about the biggest fair in England.

The whole of St Giles' and even Magdalen Street by Elliston and Cavell's right up to and beyond the War Memorial, at the meeting of the Woodstock and Banbury roads, is thick with freak shows, roundabouts, cake-walks, the whip, and the witching waves.