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Memorial Rose Garden

Jewish Cemetery Memorial Stone, Botanical Gardens

This Memorial Garden commemorates the fact that the University's Botanic Gardens were established in 1621 on the site of Oxford's medieval Jewish Cemetery. The land had been purchased by Oxford's Jewish population around 1190 and had then been appropriated by the Hospital of St John in 1231. The land is now owned by Magdalen College. An ancient footpath linked this cemetery with the medieval Jewish quarter in the city. It was called 'Deadman's Walk'.

Listen to a reflection by Professor William Whyte, St John's College, University of Oxford