August Photo Winner

British Heritage Travel reader Sheila Saxby wins our August photo competition with this luminous image of Merton Street—the last original, medieval cobblestone street in the City of Oxford. Read Sheila's story about her time there below!

“Merton College—its north wall and bell-tower seen on the left—is one of the oldest in the University, founded in 1264. These structures, like most of Oxford, are built of the golden oolite stone of the Cotswolds. Merton's "Mob Quad" is the oldest quadrangle in Oxford and its upper floors contain one the oldest academic libraries in Europe. I had the rare opportunity to attend the UCBerkeley/Oxford Summer School at Merton College in July and August of 2015. For three weeks, about 100 of us lived in the college dorms, ate together in The Hall, and enrolled in one of 11 seminars which met every weekday morning. I took the seminar on the Cotswolds—that gorgeous region of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire which embraces every chapter of English history. This photo was taken from the steps of Merton's Old Warden's Lodge (now the OWL Library), looking down the cobblestone street to the Porter's Gate and Corpus Christ College beyond. My heart leapt when I finished my paper in the OWL computer room and stepped out to see these silhouettes in England's early summer-night sky.”

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