Is this psychogeography?

Tag: Bicester

  • Explore 4: Confluence

    Explore 4: Confluence

    It took me a while to notice that Bicester lacks a major river. Of course it didn’t help that for the first few years I lived here, the mighty River Bure was culverted and canalised in a concrete ditch for much of its journey through Bicester town centre. It is not an imposing water course…

  • Explore 1: The Bicester Triangle

    Explore 1: The Bicester Triangle

    I wanted to walk the same route as a person could 110 years ago, but to stand where it was impossible for them to stand. Which is how I found myself in the Bicester Triangle. Let me explain. If I were 1914 me, following the OS map (on paper not an app), I would find…

  • Is Bicester boring?

    Is Bicester boring?

    Is Bicester boring? There was an article in the Guardian some years back that described Bicester as ‘a humdrum town on the less-lovely side of Oxfordshire’. In some ways I think this is unfair…. but it’s also not exactly incorrect.