A full colour map, based on a digitised map of the city of Oxford in 1876, with its medieval past overlain and important buildings picked out. The map's cover has a short introduction to the city's history, and on the reverse an illustrated and comprehensive gazetteer of Oxford's main sites of interest.
Alan Crossley was formerly editor of the Victoria County History volumes on Oxfordshire. He has published extensively on the history of Oxford and is the editor of the forthcoming British Historic Towns Atlas volume on Oxford.