Moggie and BEagle,
Wholeheartedly agree your comments re Oxford; What a hole!!
I live close to it and I avoid it like the plague except when we get the occasional visitors from the USA, Oz etc, then I drive them in, pay the usual fortune for a parking slot, put them on the tour bus and I go off to the pub (now the place does have one or 2 good watering holes, even if one has to step over the winos).
Let's pretend it's a RAF station and close it!!