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to its base on Elsfield Way took a wrong turn and demolished one of the walls rather than turn back. The wall was rebuilt, but after escalating public protests and several unofficial attempts, the walls were eventually officially demolished after the council bought the land the walls stood on for
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strike committee. On 11 May 1935, the Oxford branch of the CPGB and Lazarus gathered a crowd of over 2,000 people to call for the demolition of the Cuttleslowe Walls, and approached the wall wielding pickaxes. However,
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sold or exchanged his part to Francis Gregory. In 1918 Gregory's granddaughters sold Cutteslowe to the Soden family. The Sodens sold some of the land for development in 1931 and the remainder to
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close to the site of the southern wall in 2006. Part of the wall was later taken to Oxford Town Hall where it is currently on display inside the
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The burial mound was prehistoric, and was razed in the 13th century after two people were found murdered in the hollow below it. An
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Cutteslowe changed hands three times before it was bought in about 1588 by William Lenthall, grandfather of the
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A small fragment of the Aldrich Road wall existed in a private garden in Wentworth Road until the 1980s. A
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Soon after the Cuttleslowe Walls were built, a campaign was started to have them demolished, led by
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marks the site of the former Cutteslowe Walls at the junction of Wentworth and Aldrich roads
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tenants of the Cutteslowe Estate from an estate of private houses between them and
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The main road between Oxford and Banbury passes through Cutteslowe. It was
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in the 18th century and disturnpiked in the 19th century.
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Between 1934 and 1959 the Cutteslowe Walls excluded the
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Mural in pedestrian subway under the A40 Elsfield Way
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Red Lives: Communists and the Struggle for Socialism
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Cutteslowe Walls

Cutteslowe is located in Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire
OS grid reference
SP5010
Civil parish
District
Oxford
Shire county
Oxfordshire
Region
South East
Country
England
Sovereign state
Post town
Oxford
Postcode district
OX2
Dialling code
Police
Thames Valley
Fire
Oxfordshire
Ambulance
South Central
UK Parliament
Oxford West and Abingdon
Cutteslowe Community Association

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