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North Oxford is a prime residential area of Oxford and boasts a wide range of shops, restaurants and boutiques. An area with wide tree lined roads and large individual period houses built in the nineteenth century to house college dons and wealthy tradesmen in the Gothic style.

Just north of the centre of Oxford city is Jericho. 'Oxford University Press' has its home here, the biggest employer in Oxford in the nineteenth century, encouraging the building of the terraced town cottages to house local workers. Many are well modernised and some are ingeniously enlarged with basement and roof conversions. There are some late night specialist food shops, interesting pubs and a good cinema on Walton Street.

Further north is Summertown, a bustling area with supermarkets, a great variety of restaurants, several delicatessens and an excellent French bakery. Summertown is arguably one of the most attractive and convenient places to live in Oxford with easy access to both the city centre and ring road.