Advantages: Nice place if you like trees and cricket Disadvantages: nothing much for children and no refreshments etc
...reflect the formality of the University which owns them. It is a large area of grass, specimen trees and shrubs which is criss crossed with equally formal gravel paths.
It is bordered to the north by Norham Gardens which forms the southern boundary of what is probably the most select area of Oxford, to the south by the university Science area, to the east by the river Cherwell and to the west by railings which, on Sunday afternoons in summer, become ... ...doubt the matronly wives of University dons strolled through the Parks on their way to shop and at weekends it would have been the perfect place to promenade. Today, however, the Parks are a place one passes through on the way to somewhere else – more interesting. A shortcut from Lady Margaret Hall to town or en-route for a pleasant walk to Wolfson or Marston. Or they are a place where students or workers from the Science area sunbathe between ...
Freespirit 03.05.2001
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