Oxford boundary markers: Hogacre Common (1892)
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This stone stands beside the Hinksey Stream on Hogacre Common. It does not bear the city arms, and its shape is similar to the stone at Sunnymead.
It belongs to the following series of boundary stones that were set up at the time of the Mayor's perambulation of 1892 (the first such inspection to take place after the 1889 Oxford boundary change):
- Opposite Headley Way
- Woodlands Road
- Canal towpath
- Woodstock Road
- Sunnymead
- Iffley Meadows
- Port Meadow (probably)
The Hogacre Boundary stone on the south side of the Hinksey Stream is shown marked B.S. in the centre of this 1900 map. Two other boundary stones (not yet located) can be seen nearby on the same map extract: one near the Hogacre Ditch, and the other on the other side of the Hinksey Stream
Frederick Ansell was Mayor of Oxford in 1891/2, and there was a special perambulation that year.
William Stevens Carver (1859–1917), the Sheriff of Oxford who would also have been named on this stone, was at the time of the 1891 census a 32-year-old accountant & auditor who lived at 7 Longworth Road with his wife Eliza and their three young daughters. He was the City Accountant from 1894 until his death (obituary in the Oxford Journal Illustrated of 26 December 1917, p. 9).
This map shows the new 1889 boundary of the city marked in blue.