Oxford boundary markers: St Giles’s Street hundred stone
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Ancient stone outside 42 St Giles’s Street
marking the northern boundary of the Northgate (Oxford) Hundred and the start of the Bullingdon (Headington) Hundred.
Everything to the north of this stone up to and including Summertown was until 1929 in the Headington rather than the Oxford registration district.
This is a Grade II listed structure:
List Entry No
1046585
On 13 November 1671 the Mayor of Oxford informed the city council that “the publique highway neere Bridweell is much ruinated, the Northgate Hundred pound and the Antient Stones which were boundarys to the Hundred are worn out and removed.”
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