Student Accommodation in Jericho

Student housing in Jericho, Oxford

Jericho sits between the Oxford Canal and Woodstock Road, a ten to fifteen-minute walk from the city centre and the University of Oxford's central colleges. It's one of the city's oldest residential quarters, built through the 1800s to house workers at the Oxford University Press print works and the boatyards along the canal, and it still has that close, terraced-street feel today. If you're looking at student housing in Jericho, you're choosing somewhere with its own identity: independent cafes on Walton Street, a canal towpath as a shortcut into town, and colleges close enough to reach without setting an alarm an hour early.

What's around Jericho

Walton Street runs through the middle of the area and does most of the heavy lifting. Independent cafes, bookshops, boutiques and a run of restaurants line it, including Branca and the Chinese-Malay kitchen at Zheng. The Phoenix Picturehouse anchors the street's north end, an arthouse cinema that's been showing films since 1913. A few doors along, the Jericho Tavern still pulls a crowd for live music, most famously as the venue for Radiohead's first ever gig.

Little Clarendon Street has its own scattering of cafes and shops if Walton Street gets busy. The Gardeners Arms on Plantation Road does a solid vegetarian pub menu, Raoul's Bar is the go-to for cocktails, and The Victoria pairs pies with a proper pint. For green space, the Oxford Canal towpath runs along Jericho's western edge and leads straight out to Port Meadow, Oxford's largest stretch of open grazing land and a decent spot to clear your head after a long library session.

Getting around

Jericho's location is most of the appeal. Central Oxford is closer here than in most university cities: it's roughly a ten to fifteen-minute walk to the centre via Beaumont Street, passing the Ashmolean Museum on the way, and about the same again on foot to Oxford train station. The number 6 bus runs along Woodstock Road on Jericho's edge, connecting to Magdalen Street in the centre every 15 to 20 minutes through the day, according to Oxford Bus Company's timetable. Plenty of students skip the bus altogether and cycle, especially along the flat canal towpath towards Port Meadow and Wolvercote.

Universities near Jericho

Jericho borders Somerville College directly along Woodstock Road, and the rest of the University of Oxford's central colleges, including Jesus, Wadham and St John's, sit within that same ten to fifteen-minute walk. For the full picture on studying there and what's nearby, see the University of Oxford page.

Accommodation in Jericho

Student accommodation in Jericho tends to mean Victorian terraces converted into shared houses, though there's also a handful of studios and en-suite rooms nearer Walton Street. On Housr, filter by weekly price, number of bedrooms and bathrooms, and switch between single rooms and studios to match your budget. If you'd rather see everything mapped out before booking a viewing, the interactive map view shows exactly how each property sits relative to Walton Street and the canal.

If student housing in Jericho sounds like your kind of area, start filtering by price, bedrooms and bathrooms on this page, or head back to the Oxford student accommodation hub to compare it against the rest of the city.