Boundary Stone: Oxford

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Boundary Stone: Oxford

Image: © Dylan Moore Taken: 29 Oct 2015

The easy task of explaining this turned out to be time consuming. "Northgate Hundred" was apparently originally the part of the Liberty of Oxford outside the town walls. It was not a Hundred in the usually accepted sense. By the sixteenth century, St Mary Magdalen parish had been detached from it, so the boundary ran along the northern edge of the lands of Trinity and St John's Colleges. There is another stone on St Giles, outside No. 42. By the time these stones were laid, their significance was already purely antiquarian.

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Image Location

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Latitude
51.756686
Longitude
-1.255773