Ben Le Vay's Eccentric Oxford - Travel advice and holiday tips featuring the best pubs and restaurants, insider secrets, stories and historical eccentricities. Also including off-the-tourist-track walks and cycle routes, quirky people, rituals and events, colleges and students, River Cherwell, punting and boat races, history and architecture.
Ben Le Vay's Eccentric Oxford - Travel advice and holiday tips featuring the best pubs and restaurants, insider secrets, stories and historical eccentricities. Also including off-the-tourist-track walks and cycle routes, quirky people, rituals and events, colleges and students, River Cherwell, punting and boat races, history and architecture.
Introduction 1 The Eccentric Year January March March/April April May June July August September October November December Occasional 2 Eccentric History Oxford bags of history The university gets going William Morris and William Morris Twentieth-century pressures 3 Eccentric Literature Alice the prince the Nazi and Mr Toad The Wind in the Willows and real tragedy on the riverbank Oxford’s unequalled literary pantheon Further reading 4 Eccentric People An eccentric Oxford don: Richard Cobb The deeply eccentric Robert Hawker The last great eccentric? Baron Berners Oxford’s most eccentric sculpture Political also-rans and poly dollies Sex and the var-sity The what sports club? 5 Eccentric Colleges Colleges their eccentric dons and other animals… All Souls Balliol Brasenose Brookes Christ Church Corpus Christi Exeter Green Templeton Harris Manchester Hertford Jesus College Keble Kellogg Lady Margaret Hall Linacre Lincoln Magdalen Mansfield Merton New College Nuffield Oriel Pembroke Queen’s Ruskin College St Anne’s St Antony’s St Catherine’s St Cross St Edmund Hall St Hilda’s St Hugh’s St John’s St Peter’s Somerville Trinity University College Wadham Wolfson Worcester 6 Eccentric Churches Name that saint St Mary the Virgin High Street Christ Church Cathedral St Thomas of Canterbury Elsfield St Giles Horspath St Barnabas Horton-cum-Studley 7 Walks: Central Oxford The architectural crown jewels 8 Walks: East Oxford Enter the freaky cosmic triangle 9 Walks: North of the Centre From Broad Street to the Bird and Bastard From St Giles to Jericho and beyond North Oxford: plain living and high thinking Summertown 10 Eccentric Things to See or Do Punting: pleasure or humiliation? Children’s stuff (outdoors) Museums (and not just for children) Eccentric days out Bike to spooky Otmoor 11 Out of Town Binsey Boars Hill Iffley 12 Eccentric Facts Oxford and Cambridge: strange similarities Eccentric Oxford street names 12 peculiar meanings of the word Oxford 13 Eccentric Living Eat eccentric Drink eccentric Stay eccentric Shop eccentric Non-eccentric shopping 14 Postscript: Odds & Bods ‘Civilian’ eccentrics Port Meadow’s secret Eccentric Glossary Index
Introduction 1 The Eccentric Year January March March/April April May June July August September October November December Occasional 2 Eccentric History Oxford bags of history The university gets going William Morris and William Morris Twentieth-century pressures 3 Eccentric Literature Alice the prince the Nazi and Mr Toad The Wind in the Willows and real tragedy on the riverbank Oxford’s unequalled literary pantheon Further reading 4 Eccentric People An eccentric Oxford don: Richard Cobb The deeply eccentric Robert Hawker The last great eccentric? Baron Berners Oxford’s most eccentric sculpture Political also-rans and poly dollies Sex and the var-sity The what sports club? 5 Eccentric Colleges Colleges their eccentric dons and other animals… All Souls Balliol Brasenose Brookes Christ Church Corpus Christi Exeter Green Templeton Harris Manchester Hertford Jesus College Keble Kellogg Lady Margaret Hall Linacre Lincoln Magdalen Mansfield Merton New College Nuffield Oriel Pembroke Queen’s Ruskin College St Anne’s St Antony’s St Catherine’s St Cross St Edmund Hall St Hilda’s St Hugh’s St John’s St Peter’s Somerville Trinity University College Wadham Wolfson Worcester 6 Eccentric Churches Name that saint St Mary the Virgin High Street Christ Church Cathedral St Thomas of Canterbury Elsfield St Giles Horspath St Barnabas Horton-cum-Studley 7 Walks: Central Oxford The architectural crown jewels 8 Walks: East Oxford Enter the freaky cosmic triangle 9 Walks: North of the Centre From Broad Street to the Bird and Bastard From St Giles to Jericho and beyond North Oxford: plain living and high thinking Summertown 10 Eccentric Things to See or Do Punting: pleasure or humiliation? Children’s stuff (outdoors) Museums (and not just for children) Eccentric days out Bike to spooky Otmoor 11 Out of Town Binsey Boars Hill Iffley 12 Eccentric Facts Oxford and Cambridge: strange similarities Eccentric Oxford street names 12 peculiar meanings of the word Oxford 13 Eccentric Living Eat eccentric Drink eccentric Stay eccentric Shop eccentric Non-eccentric shopping 14 Postscript: Odds & Bods ‘Civilian’ eccentrics Port Meadow’s secret Eccentric Glossary Index
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