Oxford boundary markers: Sunnymead (1892)
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This stone is on a river bank next to a footbridge on the path leading to the former Sunnymead Bathing Place off Water Eaton Road. It is not a listed structure.
It marks the new city boundary of 1889. It does not bear the city arms, and its shape is similar to the stone the Hogacre Ditch.
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
- Woodstock Road
- Opposite Headley Way
- Godstow Road bridge
- Hogacre Ditch
- Woodlands Road
- Iffley Meadows
- Port Meadow (probably)
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 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).