Pictures in Colour of Oxford, with Its University and Colleges

Excerpt from Pictures in Colour of Oxford, With Its University and Colleges: With Descriptive Notes; Containing Fifty Beautifully Coloured Pictures of the City, Surroundings, and University of Oxford

Xford, general view. - Where the Cherwell joins the Isis is the spot on which lies that most famous city of Oxford, the home of wisdom and learning. The earliest known men tion of Oxford is that in the Sa-xon Chronicle under the year 912, though there are legends of a far earlier date. The loss of London in the Danish wars made it the border town of the Mercians, and the Saxon mound close to the castle was probably the first of the forti fications of Aethel?edaf Then came the Norman Conquest, when William gave the city into the hands. Of Robert d'oili, who extended the castle and the walls of the town, built the great tower which still stands, and several churches. It is in the reign of Henry Beauclerc that we first hear of Oxford as a place of study and schools. It is one of the most picturesque cities in the kingdom, its quaint old colleges, with their varied architecture, its beautiful churches, public buildings and gardens, its scholars in their quaint caps and gowns, all tend to make a pleasing impression on the visitor rarely experienced elsewhere.

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