Sandfield Road

Hugo Dyson, a member of the Oxford literary group called the Inklings, lived at 32 Sandfield Road until his death in 1975.

[3] Sandfield Road's most famous resident was the author and academic J. R. R. Tolkien, another member of the Inklings, who lived at No 76 with his wife Edith from 1953 to 1968, towards the end of his time in Oxford.

[6] When living here, Tolkien attended the Catholic Church of St Anthony of Padua in nearby Headley Way.

The following volumes of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings novel were first published while he lived in this house: Tolkien attended the Church of St Anthony of Padua nearby (opened in 1960) when he was a resident in Sandfield Road.

[4] In 1968, partly due to harassment by fans at his home in Sandfield Road, Tolkien moved to Bournemouth on the south coast of England.