FROM MAGDALEN TO ST ALDATE’S STREET

It is now necessary to take a longish walk. We cross the High, go down Rose Lane by the Botanical Gardens opposite Magdalen into Christ Church Meadow, turn right along the Broad Walk and through the War Memorial Gardens into St Aldate’s[1] Street. On our right, as we go, are sections of the south wall of the town, and views of Merton College and Christ Church itself. (From Goulder, Pilgrimage Pamphlets: Oxford & Cambridge, 1963)

[1] There is no such saint. Undergraduate slang calls the street St Oed's. The name may be derived from the old South Gate which ran across it.