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Boar's Hill

Saturday 27 January

Overlooking Oxford is Boars Hill, a nature reserve which provided the inspiration and the setting for two of Matthew Arnold’s best-known poems, The Scholar Gipsy (1853) and Thyrsis (1867).

Meeting place: Trinity Gates, Broad St., 10:00 a.m.
Return: 16:30
Distance: 15 km
Lunch: Pub
Fare: none
Leader: Marta.Herschkopf(at)queens.ox.ac.uk