Headington Hill Park
Hillside arboretum of rare trees and lime avenues, once a brewing family's estate and open-air stage.
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This guide to Headington Hill Park in Oxford follows the summers when an Oxford theatre company turned these lawns, oaks and copper beeches into an open-air stage. It centres on a Romeo and Juliet of two thousand and four, with a balcony that needed no carpenter and a Nurse cast against type. It also reaches back to the Morrell brewing family, and a May Day ball on this hill with a young Oscar Wilde among the guests. Best heard standing near the big trees on the lawn.
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