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Medieval Jewish Cemetery, Oxford grey plaque

Oxford, West Berkshire, England, United Kingdom

Beneath this garden lies a medieval cemetery. Around 1190 the Jews of Oxford purchased a water meadow outside the city walls to establish a burial ground. In 1231 that land, now occupied by Magdalen College, was appropriated by the Hospital of St John, and a small section of wasteland, where this me

morial lies, was given to the Jews for a new cemetery. An ancient footpath linked this cemetery with the medieval Jewish quarter along Great Jewry Street, now St Aldates. For over 800 years this path

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