Binsey village somehow manages to lie within and outside Oxford; it is, in essence, Oxford suburbia. The boundary between town and country is much less marked here than in Australia. Binsey is only 1km or so from Botley Rd (where the peak hour traffic is thick and sluggish), and lies off the edge of Port Meadow and the Thames.

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Just up the road from Binsey is the little church of St Margaret's, which has no electricity (hence the oil lamps). The well in the courtyard (a covered hole) was, apparently the inspiration for the treacle well in Alice in Wonderland.

Iffley Lock is another of the locks on the Thames. The upstream gate is closed behind the soon-to-depart canal boat, and the downstream gate is open (left and right foreground).

Steam boat at Iffley Lock, with all its gleaming brasswork ("steam boat" seems wrong, as do "steam launch" and "steam dinghy", so I don't really know what to call it!). Apparently, there's an engineer who does more of the looking after the engine than does the owner.

Sunlit leaves in Bagley Wood. (Yes, I know some of you may be asking what tree it is. It's Arboris crudusfolium.)

Sunlit wood (I was going to be a smart-alec and use the word "copse", until I discovered that this means a forest of relatively small trees).