High Street
Curving historic main street lined with colleges, old inns and two rival centuries-old coffee houses.
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This guide to High Street in Oxford stands at the old site of the Angel coaching inn in the sixteen fifties, with a newcomer named Jacob and a drink most of England had never tasted. It follows the antiquarian Anthony Wood, the students he scolded, and the merchants and apothecaries who joined in along the street. Best heard outside number eighty-four, with the corner of Queen's Lane in view.
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