Merton Street
Cobbled college lane lined with medieval cottages, a real tennis court and historic college gates.
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This guide to Merton Street in Oxford centres on Anthony Wood, the seventeenth-century antiquary who was born, lived and died in the little cottage opposite Merton College's gate, and who had a reputation for being rude and disagreeable. It follows the years around sixteen fifty, when a strange new drink began appearing in the inns and houses a short walk away, and the merchants and apothecaries who sold it. Best heard standing by the blue plaque beside Postmasters Hall.
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