Wellington Square, Oxford

A bicycle route passes into Little Clarendon Street through the pedestrian area at the front of the University Offices in the north-east of the square.

The street name is used to refer metonymically to the central administration of the University of Oxford,[1][2] which in 1975 moved from the Clarendon Building to new buildings with an address in the square but built at that time, along with graduate student accommodation, along the adjacent Little Clarendon Street.

Barnett House (named after the social reformer Canon Samuel Barnett and his wife Henrietta), home of the Department of Social Policy and Intervention is found along one side of the square.

[5] On 23 May, protesters occupied the office building of Vice-Chancellor Irene Tracey, overlooking Wellington Square, hanging a Palestinian flag and list of demands out of an office window.

[6][7] Thames Valley Police made an initial 16 arrests on suspicion of aggravated trespass, and one on suspicion of common assault, after the university authorities called the police.

Rewley House on the south side of Wellington Square at the junction with St John Street (on the right).
Wellington Square in the snow.