On the northeast corner with Kingston Road at the western end is St Margaret's parish church.
[2][3] Green Templeton College has accommodation in several houses on St Margaret's Road.
[4] Rackham Lane, which later became St Margaret's Road, was laid out in 1879 as part of the Norham Manor estate.
When the road was improved, the remains of several people who had been hanged were found.
[5] The main buildings of St Hugh's College are by Herbert Tudor Buckland and William Haywood, dating from 1914–16 and built in a neo-Georgian style.