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Cornmarket was semi-pedestrianised and made a limited-access street in 1999. Cycling is allowed 6pm to 10am. In 2002, it was voted
Britain's second worst street in a poll of listeners to the
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in Oxford at 50 Cornmarket Street in 1738. In 1928, the shop opened a new main entrance on Broad Street, but it still retained an entrance on
Cornmarket Street. The store closed in 2020.
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26–28 Cornmarket on the corner of Ship Street is a 14th-century timber-framed building. It is the surviving half of a building completed in about 1386 as the New Inn. It belongs to
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cellar dating from the second half of the 12th century: possibly the oldest vaulted structure in Oxford.
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