Oxford boundary markers: Crescent Road (1901)
1901
[City coat of arms showing
ox crossing ford]
The rest is illegible,
but probably once said
C. G. D R U C E
M A Y O R
—
J. D O R N
S H E R I F F
This stone is beside the Boundary Brook, where the lane from Barracks Lane joins the junction of Temple Road, Crescent Road, and Marsh Lane. It is on the right of the entrance to H & S Sheds in Crescent Road, but the foliage has grown and it cannot currently be seen.
Map showing the extended
boundary of the City in 1889
In 1900/1 George Claridge Druce was Mayor of Oxford and John Dorn (a retired builder and councillor for the North ward who lived at 15 Parks Road) was Sheriff. Druce was also a famous botanist who helped to found the Ashmolean Natural History Society of Oxfordshire in 1880, and his book The Flora of Oxfordshire was published in 1886.Not a listed structure
This stone was put up at the same time as three other surviving 1901 boundary stones:
• Field opposite the Victoria Arms
• North Hinksey
• Pullens Lane, Headington