Halfway along is a junction with Southmoor Place to the east, also linking it with Kingston Road.

[2] Houses in the road were originally leased between 1883 and 1895 as part of the North Oxford estate of St John's College.

[4] The fountain was designed by Harry Wilkinson Moore, architect of many of the houses in Southmoor Road, and carved in Portland stone by McCulloch of London.

[6] Here he worked on the illustrated book The Silent Traveller in Oxford, first published by Methuen in 1944.

[2] Residents in the road celebrated its centenary with a street party on 22 June 1986.