Port Meadow
Ancient riverside common grazed by ponies and cattle under rights recorded in the Domesday Book.
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This guide to Port Meadow in Oxford is about a right to graze that reaches back to the Domesday Book of ten eighty-six, and the legend that pins it on Alfred the Great. It follows the Freemen of Oxford, the Commoners of Wolvercote and the Sheriff who walks out to them every June. Best heard standing in the open grass, within sight of the grazing horses.
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