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The Jack Russell was an estate pub situated on Salford Road. It was named after the Reverend Jack Russell, a former Oxford University graduate who bred the first Jack Russell dog from a dog he bought in Marston. This pub closed at the end of 2014.

A pub demolished recently was the Jack Russell, on Salford Road on the New Marston estate. It is said to be named after a local vicar who, in 1819, developed this new breed of dog after buying a fox terrier. The pub was built as recently as 1963 and run by Greene King; a determined campaign to save it came to nothing.

Graham Baker, via Oxford Drinker website (August 2022)

Review from tantallon.org.uk:

Independent IPA £1.62 Morland Original £2.00 Ruddles County £2.20 Dry Blackthorn Cider £2.00 Blackthorn Cidermaster £2.15 Guinness Stout £2.25 Poppadoms 35p (26.vii.1998) Modern pub this. The grounds are mostly car park, and the frontage of the pub is hemisemicircular, knobbly, and covered in terracotta reliefs of grapes and hops. Inside, one bar is full of snooker tables, but the other one looks like a seventies function room, and is not unpleasant. There is a huge mirror behind the bar, mostly covered in different varieties of spirits, and a barman who looks oddly like Richard Stilgoe. There are four ales on cask, in good condition, and the discovery of the day was that Green Chilli flavour poppadoms go excellently with Ruddles County. Difficult to assess the clientele in the lounge bar as they mostly consisted of motorcyclists from overseas. (26.vii.1998)

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