Cornmarket Street
Pedestrianised medieval shopping street on the old road to the North Gate, with a Saxon church tower.
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This guide to Cornmarket Street in Oxford looks down rather than up, at the surface of a trading street more than a thousand years old. It follows the county council's granite paving scheme begun in two thousand and one, and an earlier nineteen-fifties trial with rubber on the road. Along the way you'll hear why stone is strong in one direction and weak in another, and what lies under the street. Best heard standing in the middle of the pedestrian stretch.
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