Port Meadow, Oxford's watery landscape – in pictures
Port Meadow is a calming spot along the River Thames on the outskirts of Oxford. Its history stretches back to 2000BC. William Turner was inspired to paint his early landscapes here. Lewis Carroll rowed Alice Liddell and related Alice in Wonderland to her. And Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote Binsey Poplars, a Victorian ode against the felling of trees for a railway line. Photographs by Adrian Arbib from a current exhibition at the River and Rowing Museum, Henley on Thames
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Early morning mist in May at Port Meadow, on the on the outskirts of Oxford. It is described as England's oldest monument and is a site of special scientific interest
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Dennis Drinkwater, 72, a Wolvercote commoner. His grandfather and family have had cattle on the meadow for over 100 years. He used to drive the cattle on the towpath to the meadow from Wolvercote for milking and remembers running out of school when a Wellington bomber crashed on the meadow in the second world war
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An Oxford mathematician walks his dogs in the place that he met his wife. When asked what he was listening to, he replied: '88 for 1' (England v Sri Lanka cricket match, 2002)
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Horses under an April sky. Evidence of Neolithic settlement from the area indicates a history of grazing livestock way back to 2000 BC
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Michael Toehill carries a foal that had trouble suckling the mare after being born on a rainy day in August. Without feed the foal would die. Michael removed the foal so that it could be suckled by hand
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Arts students from Abilene Chrstian University, Texas, show their watercolours of the meadow
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A flooded meadow in January
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Dilly the dog listens to Milo Thurston as he plays, 'My dearest on Earth, give me your kiss', on the Great Highland bagpipes
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Oliver Miles, a former ambassador to Libya who led diplomats against the Iraq war, has been coming to the meadow for 45 years, since he was an undergraduate at Oxford
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Water shrouds and dampens parts of the meadow in Wolvercote in January
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John H Wright from the Isle of Wight is a member of the Croydon Model Aircraft Club, participating in the Annual Oxford Model Flying Club rally, held on the meadow since 1941
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A young Korean boy with his father on tour of the meadow
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A thunderstorm gathers over the horizon in May
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An activist makes a pilgrimage to the source of the Thames from Occupy St Pauls. An attempt to put up a tent was thwarted when the police turned up and ordered him to take it down. Meanwhile, Oxford University have built massive student blocks on the edge of Port Meadow with next to no public consultation and despite a huge public outcry
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Boys, Toby and Oliver, fish in the shallow waters using nets
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A thinning band of flame orange light reflects on water as dusk melts into night over Port Meadow
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