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Date of picture: 1767	Picture source: Dominic Price
The Diamond Hall was situated on Banbury Road.
...the only building of note between here and the centre of Oxford was an inn, Diamond Hall. This stood on the east side of Banbury Road, roughly opposite the end of Thorncliffe Road. By 1760 Diamond Hall was notorious as a den of highwaymen, and at the end of that century it was replaced by Diamond Cottages, which still survive today.
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Before 1820 Diamond Hall was the only house on the east side of the Banbury Road. It was a lonely wayside inn, 'and if legendary tales whisper truth was the scene of many a dark deed'. The first mention of the inn is in Tom Warton's comic satire on ' the Oxford Guide' 1760. It had ceased to be an inn about 1790, and had been divided into four small tenements when Badcock wrote. The site is now Diamond Terrace (nos. 194-198 Banbury Road).
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Date of picture: 1911	Picture source: Sharpstrings
Site of The Diamond Hall (194-198 Banbury Road), 1944	Picture source: Dominic Price