Queen Street, with its restricted accessibility for cars, is a shopping street located in the heart of the city. Adjoining Cornmarket Street, High Street and St Aldate's, the street reflects its historic past in every corner. It used to be known as "the Bailey" due to its close proximity with the Bailey Castle and as "Butcher Row" due to cattle slaughtering and trade of meat on the streets.
Among many notable streets in Oxford, High Street is one of them. The street is flanked with many significant houses and avenues of historic importance. Linking Carfax from the city center to Magdalen Bridge, this street is recounted by the famous British scholar Nikolaus Pevsner as "one of the world's great streets". The street is also home to the city's oldest coffee house - Queen's Lane Coffee House.