Risinghurst's a quiet outlying residential area of Oxford, England, situated just outside the Eastern Bypass road which forms part of the Oxford ring road. It's around a mile from the centre of Headington and from Oxford city centre. It's part of the Risinghurst and Sandhills civil parish and's typical of housing estates built between the wars to house an increasingly prosperous working class who were moving into new urban centres - in this instance to take advantage of the burgeoning motor indu… (More on Risinghurst)