The story of Oxford's beginnings is a mysterious tangle of legend and fact. Starting at around the year 700A.D. this story involves a Princess nun, a lecherous king, a bolt of lightning, and a monsatery ... sounds interesting? Well read on.
During the 12th century a university gradually evolved within the defensive walls of the market town of Oxford, filling the streets with rowdy scholars, putting a strain on the resources of the community and causing frequent clashes.
Serious hostility is now a thing of the past, and it is the romantic notions of Oxford that prevail - the punts, picnics and poetry - and visitors are lured by an almost tangible atmosphere of learning in a compact city of superb golden-stoned buildings and dreaming spires.
Contents:
Chronology
Carfax
Radcliffe Square
High Street
Turl Street
Magdalen Bridge
Merton Street
Student Life
Christ Church
St Aldate's
Beaumont Street
St Giles
Broad Street
Parks Road
New College Lane
Out of Town Visits
Information
City Plan
