Oxford boundary markers: Port Meadow (probably 1892)
Lettering completely worn away
This stone has probably suffered from water damage, and is not a listed structure. The photograph was taken on 22 January 2018 when there was flooding.
This stone is at the north end of Port Meadow, and was probably set up by the city council in 1892 at the same time as the stones on the Godstow Road.
It probably dates from 1892. If so, it 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
- Hogacre Ditch
- Sunnymead
- Woodlands Road
- Woodstock Road
- Iffley Meadows
This map shows the new 1889 boundary of the city marked in blue.
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).