Wolvercote Common News Today

THE Sheriff’s horse races on Port Meadow and Wolvercote Common in Oxford always attracted hundreds of spectators

It wasnt the fiercest of the many protests to hit Oxford, but the protagonists had a strong message to put across.

Oxford’s first Living Roof bus shelter has been installed in East Oxford, as part of work to support biodiversity across the city.

A SURVEY into whether people should be stopped from lighting fires and digging for antique bottles in Oxfords parks will end later today. There is still time to have a say on Oxford City Council’s proposals aimed at stopping people from making fires and digging for old bottles in some of Oxford’s open spaces before a consultation closes later today (June 28). The city council is proposing new rules to stop people from lighting fires – including barbecues – in Port Meadow, Burgess ...

DIGGING for old glass bottles on Oxfords Port Meadow could net people a £100 in the near future.

Port Meadow and the River Thames - Credit: Kevan Manwaring Walk in the footsteps of Lewis Carroll and visit the inspiration for Alice in Wonderland amid the historic water meadows of Oxford 12th-century Godstow Abbey - Credit: Kevan Manwaring One idyllic afternoon in early July, 1862, the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson rowed towards Godstow with his friend Robinson Duckworth (also a man of the cloth) and three VIP passengers – Lorina, Alice, and Edith Liddell, the young daughters of the De...