The Old Parsonage – Nearby Essentials
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🍺Pubs
The Lamb & Flag
Owned by St John’s College, legend has it that profits from the pub go to fund Graduate Scholarships, the Graduate Scholars drink in the pub, thereby funding the Graduate Scholars ad infinitum…
More seriously it’s where JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis and the other Inklings met after being banned from the Eagle & Child opposite.
Not because they were drinking too much, but not drinking enough!
Sadly the Eagle & Child is closed for redevelopment, although the Ellison Technical Institute which owns the pub now has promised to restore it sympathetically.
Watch this space…
Only pizza on the menu.
The Royal Oak
Former 1700s blacksmiths, sympathetically restored.
Frequented by students and staff from over the road Green Templeton College and the Maths Department.
🍽️ Restaurants
Browns
Pierre Victoire
🥖Grocery Stores/Supermarkets
St Giles Post Office
Small and friendly mom and pop style.
⚕️💊Pharmacy
There’s only one central Oxford Pharmacy:
Boots, Cornmarket Street
Open 8am to 8pm every day except Sunday 11am to 5pm
