At the very western end, actually in Oriel Square, is an entrance to Christ Church, Oxford's largest college.

[citation needed] Despite being cobbled, the street has been repaired by Oxford City Council using asphalt.

Siegfried Sassoon briefly took rooms in no 14 during 1919, on the recommendation of Lady Ottoline Morrell.

[4] The historian Michael Brock (1920–2014) and his wife (and co-editor) Eleanor lived in the street in the early 1950s.

[5] The academic and author J. R. R. Tolkien had rooms in Merton Street towards the end of his life in the early 1970s.