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No, I said that the article called the ground "historic" and it does unambiguously. The old cricket pavilion that is now a cricket pavilion is a grade II listed building but I never said that the article claimed that. As for interpretation, it is your interpretation that the BBC and Sky articles were
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They could equally have been referring to the Blues games or the internationals played there. The thing being that sports journalists seem to think that the ground is either "iconic" or "historic" and that would tend to suggest that it is notable. I'm not sure that "wrongly held to be notable" is
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The Sky article seems to consider the rugby ground to be part of the larger Iffley Road sports centre. I've come across this view quite a few times whilst doing research. The OU committee that met to discuss upgrades to the sports centre in 2010 actually met in the rugby pavilion. Now that isn't
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