Folly Bridge and Grandpont – a guided walk

Saturday 5 September at 2pm
Ticket price: £9

Grandpont is a late Victorian suburb, but the history of this area goes back to the early medieval period when south of what is now Folly Bridge was all open marshy meadowland, bisected by a huge causeway or grandpont of 40 arches, the site of the original oxen ford which gave the city its name. Later the area was home to Oxford’s first waterworks, railway station and football ground. Come and hear Liz Woolley’s account of the history of this fascinating but often overlooked part of Oxford.