South Park
Hilltop parkland of open grass slopes with sweeping views over the spires and towers below.
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About this audio guide
This guide to South Park in Oxford, the largest park within the city limits, goes back to one summer night in July two thousand and one, when Radiohead came home to play on this hillside before tens of thousands of fans under a sky that had threatened rain all day. It touches the Oxford Preservation Trust's purchase of the old farmland in nineteen thirty-two and the carved Eric Gill stone that records it. Best heard partway up the slope, facing down toward the city.
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