Turf Tavern
Hidden alley pub against the medieval city wall, once a haunt of gamblers and cockfighting.
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This guide to the Turf Tavern in Oxford follows the sporting life of a pub that grew up outside the old city wall, back when it was the Spotted Cow and its pastimes were cockfighting, bear-baiting and bare-knuckle boxing. It then turns to a young Australian Rhodes scholar named Bob Hawke and the yard of ale that made him famous long before politics did. Best heard in the yard beside the surviving stretch of city wall.
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