The Perch
Thatched seventeenth-century riverside inn with a garden beside the Thames and Port Meadow.
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This guide to the Perch in Binsey, on the edge of Oxford, follows the money behind a thatched riverside ale house: who held the licence, who poured the drink, and who owned the walls. It reaches from a Prickett on Port Meadow in the fifteen nineties to an Oxford scholar's summer outing in seventeen sixty-one. Stand in the garden where you can see the ridge of the thatch.
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