High
Street
The High Street, in the centre of
Oxford, is one of Oxford's greatest
streets.
(“The stream like windings of that
glorious street” – William Wordsworth
c1820)
A vibrant, slightly curved street
that is host to a number of Oxford's
finest restaurants, jewelers , fashion
outlets, antique dealers, the famous
Oxford University shop and of course
St Mary’s church. There are a number
of small cobbled streets and alleyways
that are evidence of hundreds of years
of development and building along this
street with a number of these alleys
still cobbled and untouched for hundreds
of years. There are a number of small,
cobbled streets and alleyways, evidence
of hundreds of years of evolution.
The buildings are much older than they
look and some of the architecture is
simply stunning.
The street and this short intro to
the High Street ends at Magdalen Bridge
known as May Day bridge where academics
in the city would gather for the May
Day ball on the 1st of May each year.
A number of the public houses still
open around the clock on the 30th of
April through to the early hours of
the 1st of May to help in keeping this
jolly tradition alive....
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