Binsey is a small village just to the West of Oxford, in modern times encompassed within the ring-road. It is the other side of the Thames from Port Meadow, and a couple of miles south-west from the remains of Godstow priory. A village is a human residential settlement commonly found in rural areas. ... Oxford is a city and local government district in Oxfordshire, England, with a population of 134,248 (2001 census). ... Several places exist with the name Thames, and the word is also used as part of several brand and company names Most famous is the River Thames in England, on which the city of London stands Other Thames Rivers There is a Thames River in Canada There is a Thames... Port Meadow is a large area of common land to the north and west of Oxford, England. ... The ruined Godstow Abbey. ...

Its most famous feature is the church of St Margaret, set at some distance north from the surviving houses. Its fame lies mostly in that just outside its West end and belltower, stands the model for Lewis Carroll's 'Treacle Well' from Alice in Wonderland; this is a holy well dedicated to St Frideswide, patron of Oxford. She had fled to Binsey in a bid to escape marriage to a king of Mercia, whose pursuit of her was halted when he was struck blind at the gates of Oxford. Frideswide's prayers brought forth a healing spring, whose waters cured his blindness, and the spring was walled into a shallow well which became something of a focus for pilgrimage, the mediaeval sense of the word 'Treacle' meaning 'healing unguent'. Margaret, with her palm of martyrdom, escapes the dragon Saint Margaret, also known as Margaret of Antioch, virgin and martyr, was formerly celebrated by the Roman Catholic Church on July 20. ... Lewis Carroll. ... John Tenniels illustration for A Mad Tea-Party, 1865 Illustration by Arthur Rackham Alices Adventures in Wonderland is a work of childrens literature by the British mathematician and author, Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, written under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. ... Saint Frideswide (c. ... Oxford is a city and local government district in Oxfordshire, England, with a population of 134,248 (2001 census). ... The general location of Mercia, along with the other peoples of Britain around the year 600. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

The reason for the apparent separation of church and village, is revealed best from the air; crop-marks show the floor-plans of houses that lay along the straight road that runs between them, suggesting a much larger village during the Mediaeval period, or possibly one that has 'migrated' south. Cropmarks or Crop marks are a form of archaeological feature visible from the air. ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ...

The village and its associated farmland belonged to St Frideswide's Priory during the 14th and 15th centuries, until the Priory's dissolution and (apparently) incorporation into Christ Church College of Oxford University. Christ Church (in full: The Cathedral Church of Christ in Oxford of the Foundation of King Henry VIII) is one of the largest and wealthiest of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford, England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ...

The village also contains a large public house, ' The Perch'. For notes on some individual UK pubs, see Notable British public houses. ... Species Perca flavescens(Yellow perch) Perca fluviatilis(European perch) Perca schrenkii(Balkhash perch) A perch is a usually freshwater bony fish belonging to the family Osteichthyes. ...

External links

• Website for St Margaret's Church, Binsey