Ock Street

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The long and intriguing Ock Street with its varying widths runs westwards from the Square, finally turning South over Ock Bridge. It contains a number of buildings of architectural note, which housed a number of important people and businesses. Links to documents providing more information are given below.

A History of Ock Street to 1835 by Manfred Brod

Part 1. A Narrative History

Part 2. A study of Leases for Corporation Properties

Abingdon Listed Buildings from Ock Street and The Square

Ock Street Listed Buildings

Introduction by Dick Barnes

Ock Street North (1947 provisional + 1951 statutory lists)

Ock Street South (1947 provisional + 1951 statutory lists)

Ock Street North (1971)

Ock Street South (1971)

Abingdon Baptist Church by Michael G Hambleton

Memories of Ock Street by Jeanette Colgan

Abingdon Monumental Works by Sue Peyman-Stroud

A Short History of Morland Brewers

88 Ock Street

Charlotte Cox: A Crimean War Nurse from Ock Street (By Anne Smithson with an illustration by Marjorie Stephen)

Where the artist William Watkin Waite lived in Ock Street by Jessica Brod

Ock Street Morris

The Hemmings Family (From Berkshire Family History 1991)

Newspaper References up to 1899

Newspaper References from 1900