Port Meadow and Wolvercote Common
Oxford Mail, 04 Dec 2025 Warning issued as bird flu confirmed in Oxford's Port Meadow
A rare update to this website - see home page
Oxford Mail, 04 Dec 2025 Warning issued as bird flu confirmed in Oxford's Port Meadow
A rare update to this website - see home page
Above: From video posted by Julian Cooper, Landscape and Countryside Supervisor, Jan 2024
Port Meadow horses were kept fed during flooding by Oxford Direct Services.
Port Meadow horses were kept fed during flooding by Oxford Direct Services.
Port Meadow, 3 Jan 2024 - from video tweeted by Julian Cooper, Landscape and Countryside Supervisor, Oxford Direct Services
Port Meadow, 24 August 2019, photo by Judy Webb
Reports by Dr Judy Webb on creeping marshwort in Port Meadow, Oxford
2014 2015 2016 subsequent period up to end of 2018 2019 2020 2021
Creeping marshwort - one of Judy's 'Flora Guardian' species
Creeping Marshwort, Helosciadium (formerly Apium) repens - photos below by Judy Webb
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Below: The ANHSO Rare Plants Group (now the Oxfordshire Flora Group) recording Creeping marshwort in the 12m x 30m permanent quadrat, South Port Meadow, 2011 Photo by Judy Webb
Wolvercote Common floods November 2011, seen from Godstow Road causeway - photo by Judy Webb
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Report by Dr Judy Webb:
Port Meadow and Wolvercote Common - Informal Wildlife Report on Observations 2006-2013 a) Report + Appendices 1 and 2 (pdf file) b) Appendices 3 and 4: Wolvercote Common & Port Meadow records (pdf) c) Appendix 5: Photographs of Port Meadow by Judy Webb (pdf ) d) Appendix 6: Photographs of Wolvercote Common by Judy Webb (pdf) 'A brief history of Port Meadow and Wolvercote Common and Picksey Mead, and why their plant communities changed over the last 90 years'
This article by Dr Alison McDonald appeared in Fritillary, the journal of the Ashmolean Natural History Society of Oxfordshire. Go to the ANHSO website, click on 'Read More' in the Fritillary panel, then on Fritillary 5, then select item 9. Notes taken at the Northern Gateway hearings on 18 March 2015 (when Judy spoke): 'Matter 8: The Natural Environment' (pdf) - click here Submission by Judy Webb to the consultation on the Oxford Northern Gateway development Overview of Northern Gateway Area Action Plan proceedings Concern remains about impact of plans on Port Meadow, The Oxford Times, 30 July 2015 |
Photo by Air Experiences - Port Meadow January 2014
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Spectacular photographs of the severe flooding that affected Port Meadow in January to March 2014 were taken by Air Experiences, who have kindly given permission for two aerial views to be shown here.
Click on the photos to see larger versions (not the full-sized ones kindly supplied. Webmaster has added the copyright notes). Air Experiences, who offer the public a wide range of flying experiences, have aerial views of the January 2014 flooding in Oxford and other parts of the country on their photo webpages. |
Photo by Air Experiences - Port Meadow March 2014
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