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Cornmarket Street, Oxford

Cornmarket Street (more correctly, Cornmarket), Oxford, is the street that leads north from Carfax Tower towards St. Giles. Located there are a variety of shops and businesses including:

Boots
Burger King
The Clarendon Centre
Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC)
Starbucks
YWCA (used to be known as 'The Young Women's Christian Assocation')

In 2002, Cornmarket was voted Britain's second worst street in a poll of listeners to the BBC Today programme.

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