{"id":272,"date":"2017-05-18T09:24:49","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T08:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grahamdinton.com\/wp\/?p=272"},"modified":"2017-05-18T10:06:15","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T09:06:15","slug":"cowley-road-oxford-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grahamdinton.com\/wp\/?p=272","title":{"rendered":"Cowley Road, Oxford, England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0,0,0);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/grahamdinton.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Attachment-2017-05-18-09-24.png\" alt=\"Attachment-2017-05-18-09-24.png\"><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,0,0);\">According to Wikipedia:<\/p>\n<p><\/span><strong>Cowley Road<\/strong> is an arterial road in the city of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oxford\">Oxford<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/England\">England<\/a>, running southeast from near the city centre at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Plain,_Oxford\">The Plain<\/a> near <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Magdalen_Bridge\">Magdalen Bridge<\/a>, through the inner city area of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/East_Oxford\">East Oxford<\/a>, and to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Industrial_suburb\">industrial suburb<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cowley,_Oxford\">Cowley<\/a>.<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(71,34,132); vertical-align: super;\">[3]<\/span> The central shopping is at <a href=\"https:\/\/tools.wmflabs.org\/geohack\/geohack.php?pagename=Cowley_Road,_Oxford&#038;params=51.746_N_1.232_W_\">51.746\u00b0N 1.232\u00b0W<\/a><br \/>\nCowley Road is also the main <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shopping_street\">shopping street<\/a> of east Oxford, and in the evenings it is the area&#8217;s main leisure district.<br \/>\nCowley Road has an ethnically and economically diverse population. This includes significant, long-standing <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South-Asian\">South-Asian<\/a> and Afro-<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Caribbean\">Caribbean<\/a> communities, who have been joined more recently by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/East_European\">East European<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chinese_race\">Chinese<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ethnic_groups_of_Africa\">African<\/a> arrivals. Alongside these ethnic groups, East Oxford plays host to many members of the city&#8217;s academic population, both undergraduate and academic staff, and is home to many politically active groups.<br \/>\n<strong>Hence it is the perfect setting for crime and mystery. <\/strong><br \/>\nTake a look at the special CrimeFest price(\u00a31.99) for Held to Ransom(new price coming soon):<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B06XSJ9HS3\/\">https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B06XSJ9HS3\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Wikipedia: Cowley Road is an arterial road in the city of Oxford, England, running southeast from near the city centre at The Plain near Magdalen Bridge, through the inner city area of East Oxford, and to the industrial suburb of Cowley.[3] The central shopping is at 51.746\u00b0N 1.232\u00b0W Cowley Road is also the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-htr"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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