5 entries across places, people, and walks.
A long, narrow island in the Cherwell — Greek 'between rivers' — laid out as a public walk in 1865, threaded between two branches of the river that flow at different heights.
An ancient yew at the entrance to one of England's finest Norman churches — paired inside by John Piper's Tree of Life and Roger Wagner's Flowering Tree windows.
Four hundred years of gardens behind a Jacobean front quad — Wilkins's mound and mechanical curiosities under Cromwell, a Picturesque tree collection under Wills, and a Sheldonian Emperor's Head retired in the corner.
Twenty-six acres of gardens, playing fields and a lake inside the city — the largest college grounds in central Oxford, kept that way by the college's 18th-century edge-of-town location.
Coffee and college-baked pastries from a converted gardener's office in the St Edmund Hall churchyard.