The 1886–1890 OS County Series map of Oxfordshire shows William Street sub-dividend in to a number of plots but only two significant buildings and a single dwelling on Edgeway Road.

Development of New Marston appears to have stalled between the turn of the century and the 1920s, the 1921 map [1] shows little change from the 1899 edition save for the Northern side of Edgeway Road and the site of present-day Hugh Allen Crescent being designated as allotments (the land would be developed in 1930), and the addition of the Wadham College Cricket Ground to the North.

The cycle path is notable for its scenic nature passing through the New Marston Meadows SSSI, over the River Cherwell (and various mill streams) and along the Southern edge of the University Parks.

[7] Somewhat later a campanile was added, its style and sand-lime brick suggesting that it is the work of the then Oxford Diocesan Architect T. Lawrence Dale.

[7] St Michael's was consecrated in September 1955[9] and superseded the Ferry Road mission hall, which was then deconsecrated and sold for secular use.

[7] St Michael's was designed by T. Lawrence Dale[10] in a "vaguely Italian renaissance style"[7] that includes a slender campanile[9] for its single bell.