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The whole of the Manzil Way site was formerly home to the imposing Cowley Road Workhouse, approached by a long drive (now Manzil Way road). This workhouse for 330 inmates replaced the former Oxford City Workhouse on Rats & Mice Hill (Little Clarendon Street). It stood on eleven acres of land bought from Magalen and Pembroke Colleges. Its foundation stone was laid on 6 April 1863 and it was completed in 1865.
During the First World War the Workhouse building was used as a military hospitalthe Cowley section of the 3rd Southern General Hospital.
[[File:Cowley road hospital|frame|Postcard by Henry Taunt showing the former Cowley Road Workhouse when it was the 3rd Southern General Hospital: Cowley section during the First World War]]
