The road runs between Banbury Road to the west and the River Cherwell to the east.[2] To the south is Summer Fields School, a private preparatory school. St Michael and All Angels parish church is on the north side of Lonsdale Road, near the Banbury Road end.[3]
Lonsdale Road is named after the Earl of Lonsdale.[4] The road was named in 1905 although the first houses in the road were erected from 1902.[5]
There have been a number of notable residents of Lonsdale Road, especially scientists, including two Nobel Prize winners.[8] The following have been residents in the road:
^ a b"WW2 Bletchley Park codebreaker John Herivel awarded plaque". BBC News. UK: BBC. 10 May 2014. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
^ a bPlaque #31149 on Open Plaques
^Kinchin (2006), page 84.
^Kinchin (2006), pages 80–81.
^Kinchin (2006), pages 82–83, 148, 216–217.
^ a b cKinchin (2006), page 85.
^ a b"Lonsdale Road". Kelly's Directory of Oxford, 1976 (68th ed.). IPC Business Press. 1975. pp. 385–386.
^Kinchin (2006), pages 87–88.
^Agulnik, Peter (23 January 2011). "Bertram Mandelbrote obituary: Pioneering psychiatrist who helped transform mental hospitals". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
^Kinchin (2006), pages 88–90.
^Bromham, David R.; Dalton, Maureen E.; Jackson, Jennifer C. (1990). Philosophical Ethics in Reproductive Medicine. Manchester University Press. p. viii. ISBN 978-0719030130.