Oxford boundary markers: Iffley Meadows (1892)
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This stone is not a listed structure.
It is just inside the gate to Iffley Meadows, which can can be reached from the Thames towpath just south of Donnington Bridge.
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):
- Canal towpath
- Opposite Headley Way
- Godstow Road
- Sunnymead
- Hogacre Ditch
- Woodlands Road
- Woodstock Road
- Port Meadow (probably)
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 is also 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.
The photograph below shows this stone in context, viewed from the towpath:
