From the site of the henge
Same line extending southeast
Oxford Alignments
All Saints, Wytham to All Saints, Cuddeson
Through the Oxford Henge
Total distance approx. 8.8 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 northwest (approx. 287° NW):
a. The War Memorial (which stands on the site of an ancient pool) in front of
St Giles Church (and the Oxford-Bonn and Oxford-Leiden twinning monuments).
d. Radcliffe Infirmary (I wrote about this a couple of weeks ago).
e. St. Sepulchre's cemetery (site of the ancient Walton Manor)
f. Former site of Lucy's Iron Foundry now apartments.
g. Rainbow Bridge Medley
h. The Perch Inn (which burnt down in 1977 and 2007)
k. Rhodes House
n. Along Boundary Brook near the Cowley Marsh
o. St. Francis Church, Holloway, Oxford
q. Horspath Sewerage Works
r. A spring at Hill Farm Horspath
s. The spot on the Garsington to Wheatley road where I saw a phantom black dog
t. Ripon College Cuddesdon (Until the 1960s the former location of the
Ecclesiastical Palace of the Bishop of Oxford - Cuddesdon Palace).
u. The Church of All Saints Cuddeson,
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
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