Christ Church Meadow
Riverside flood meadow with tree-lined walks, grazing longhorn cattle and views of college spires.
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This guide to Christ Church Meadow in Oxford follows a post-war plan to run a relief road across the grass beneath your feet, from a planner's proposal in 1948 through government ministers, public inquiries and a landscape architect's idea for hiding traffic in plain sight. It touches Broad Walk, Poplar Walk and the college that stood up for them. Best heard on Broad Walk, looking out across the northern meadow.
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