INTRODUCTION TO ARTICLES Please read before proceeding
Other references:
Oxford AZ Street Plan: Geographers' A-Z Map Company Ltd, Sevenoaks, Kent: www.a-zmaps.co.uk
Ordnance Survey OS Select - Explorer: www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk
Oxford: Bob Trubshaw; www.indigogroup.co.uk/edge/oxford.htm
Oxford: Edward Thomas; Signal Books Oxford: First Published 1903: www.signalbooks.co.uk
Oxford ~ A Cultural and Literary History: David Horan; Signal Books, Oxford: First Published 1999: www.signalbooks.co.uk
Site of the notorious walls of Cutteslowe
Greycotes School
The crossroads of Banbury Road/Norham Gardens/Parks Road (marked by a statue of )
The Henge
Martyr's Memorial and then St. Mary Magdalen Church (near here the gunpowder plotters met in a pub called 'the Catherine Wheel')
The City Church of St. Michael in the Northgate (its tower is disputably Oxford's oldest - above ground - building).
St. Martin's Tower on Carfax, also the site of the Swindlestock Tavern where the deadly St. Scholastica's Day Riots flared up in 1355.
Oxford Combined Court Centre, St. Aldates.
Folly Bridge (Folly Bridge is supposed to be on the site of the fairytale Ox Ford - ha!)
Templeton College, Kennington (will merge with Green College [home of the observatory mentioned on the features page a couple of weeks ago] in October 2008).
St. Swithuns Church Kennington
From the site of the henge
Same line extending south
Oxford Alignments
Cutteslowe to Culham
Through the Oxford Henge
Total distance approx. 10.2 miles
by Ellis Taylor
This study is a work in progress
Through the site of the circular henge structure between St. Giles Street and Blackhall Road
publicly notified in July 2008:
In a direct line northwards (approx. 350° NNW)
This alignment appears to support the leyline through Oxford that was published in Alfred Watkins' "The Old Straight Track".
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LOOKING INTO THE DARK PLACES
