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Exploring Historic Oxford

Stuart Ackland, Debbie Hall and Martin Davis of the Bodleian Library Map Room take the Historic Towns Trust’s map of Oxford on an exploration of the city’s hidden past. Read about it in the summer issue of Maplines magazine, reproduced with kind permission of the British Cartographic Society...


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Cover of a Historical Map of Oxford (Second Edition)

The Historic Towns Trust has published a revised edition of the map of historic Oxford. Based on a digitised version of the Ordnance Survey map published in 1876, the historical map shows the city's main medieval and post-medieval buildings (lost or still standing in 1876) against the background of the city in Victorian times...


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