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Cripley Meadow lies between the Castle Mill Stream, a backwater of the River Thames, and the Cotswold Line railway to the east, and Fiddler's Island, on the main branch of the Thames to the west, in Oxford, England.[1] It is to the south of the more well-known Port Meadow, a large grassed area of common land. To the south is Sheepwash Channel which connects the Oxford Canal with the River Thames.

History

Goldwin Smith, a 19th century Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford University, who organized opposition to planned GWR carriage-making workshops at Cripley Meadow.[2]

In October 1554, John Wayte (later Mayor of Oxford) was appointed along with two others to travel to London to give instructions concerning Cripley Meadow and Port Meadow.[3]

In 1865, there was the possibility that the Great Western Railway (GWR) could become a major employer in Oxford since the company's railway carriage-making workshops, that were expected to provide 1,500 jobs, were to be sited in the city, moving from Paddington in London.[4][5] The City of Oxford corporation, which thirty years earlier had opposed the railway, offered a lease on Cripley Meadow for the workshops. There was great enthusiasm for the initiative.[6] However, the University of Oxford opposed the proposal, led by Goldwin Smith, a historian at University College, Oxford whose father had also been a director of GWR.[2] A contract for the Cripley Meadow site was already in place, but a change in leadership at GWR meant that the workshops were built at Swindon instead.

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The entrance to Cripley Meadow allotments.

Allotments

Before 1891, it is likely that Cripley Meadow was used for horse grazing, similar to Port Meadow, and also hay production. By March 1891, about 14 acres of the land was let to the North Oxford and Jericho Allotments Association for allotments. Over the following years, the city engineer organized the deposit of street refuse on the site to raise its level above the river.

Cripley Meadow Allotments have been developed on Cripley Meadow with an Association to run it.[4][7]

Cripley Island Orchard has also been established.[8]

Development

Panoramic view of new Oxford University graduate housing on what was Cripley Meadow, looking south from Port Meadow across.
St Barnabas Church campanile obscured by new Oxford University graduate accommodation, looking across Cripley Meadow at the southern end of Port Meadow.

Since 2012, the Castle Mill site (400m by 25m) between the Cripley Meadow Allotments[9] and the railway tracks is being developed as extensive student accommodation for the Oxford University Estates Directorate by Longcross.[10] There is a badger run at the site.[11]

The development of Castle Mill has been controversial since the four to five storey blocks overlook Port Meadow.[12] Campaigners have warned of damage to views of Oxford.[13][14] There has been an online petition[15] and concern has been raised by the Oxford Preservation Trust and the Green Party.[16] Anger has been caused even among members of Oxford University.[17] The development has been likened to building a "skyscraper beside Stonehenge".[18] In February 2013, Oxford City Council entered negotiations with Oxford University to reduce the height of the buildings by two storeys.[19]

References

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  1. ↑ Cripley Meadow Allotments (Oxford). Wikimapia, abgerufen am 22. Oktober 2012.
  2. ↑ a b The History of the University of Oxford. Volume VI: Nineteenth-Century Oxford. Oxford University Press, 1998, ISBN 978-0-19-951016-0, S. 459 (google.co.uk).
  3. ↑ John Wayte: Mayor of Oxford 1555/6 and 1561/2. In: Mayors & Lord Mayors. Oxford History, abgerufen am 22. Oktober 2012.
  4. ↑ a b History. Cripley Meadow Allotments Association, abgerufen am 22. Oktober 2012.
  5. ↑ Norman H. MacKenzie, Catherine Phillips: Excursions in Hopkins. Saint Joseph's University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-916101-76-3, S. 36 (google.co.uk).
  6. ↑ Vorlage:Cite magazine
  7. ↑ Projects: Cripley Island Orchard. Local Food, abgerufen am 22. Oktober 2012.
  8. ↑ Breaking new ground at the Cripley Meadow Allotments. Panoramio, abgerufen am 22. Oktober 2012.
  9. ↑ Planning issues: Cripley Road/ Roger Dudman Way development of Castle Mill Site. Cripley Meadow Allotments, abgerufen am 18. April 2013.
  10. ↑ Longcross at the University of Oxford, Castle Mill Phase 2 ∙ Innovation in action. Longcross, abgerufen am 23. Oktober 2012.
  11. ↑ Longcross Secures Student Accommodation Project at Oxford University. Longcross, Juli 2012, abgerufen am 23. Oktober 2012.
  12. ↑ City 'has to pay a price' to preserve Green Belt, 1 November 2012, S. 1, 3 
  13. ↑ Reg Little: Save our famous views for hideous developments In: The Oxford Times, 2 November 2012. Abgerufen im 4 November 2012 
  14. ↑ Reg Little: Save our famous views for hideous developments In: Oxford Mail, 2 November 2012. Abgerufen im 4 November 2012 
  15. ↑ Sushila Dhall: In: www.thepetitionsite.com/850/008/830/port-meadow-oxford-damaged-views/. Care2petitionsite, 2012, abgerufen am 4. November 2012.
  16. ↑ Reg Little: Planning: Controversy over student flats at Roger Rudman Way — The battle of Port Meadow, 1 November 2012, S. 10 
  17. ↑ Tall storey In: The Oxford Times, 1 November 2012, S. 32. Abgerufen im 4 November 2012 
  18. ↑ Reg Little: Historian takes university to task over 'visual disaster' of Port Meadow flats, 7 February 2013, S. 3 
  19. ↑ Pete Hughes: U-turn over meadow flats, 14 February 2013, S. 3 
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