Christ's Hospital is responsible for the park and characteristic Victorian and Edwardian housing in its neighbourhood, all laid out after 1860 in the former Conduit Field.

Abingdon architects who worked on this estate were Edwin Dolby (1838-1900), Dolby's pupil, J G Timothy West (1860-1931) and A B West (1885-1957). The statue of Prince Albert (1863) is by John Gibbs of Oxford.