Oxford boundary markers: North Hinksey (1901)
1901
C. G. D R U C E
M A Y O R
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J. D O R N E
S H E R I F F
Photographed by Tim King
This stone is on private land on
the bank of the Hinksey Stream
near Willow Walk bridge
Not a listed structure
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.
This stone was put up in the same year as three other surviving 1901 boundary stones:
• Crescent Road, Cowley;
• Field opposite the Victoria Arms
• Pullens Lane, Headington