Below are pictures of Magdalen College Grove Wall on the east side of the street, which some people wrongly assume is the eponymous “long wall”.
This wall was restored in the nineteenth century. Jackson's Oxford Journal of 17 October 1891 reported:
MAGDALEN COLLEGE
The restoration of the grove wall in Holywell-street, which was commenced in 1890, was completed early this year. The whole of the stone ashler and moulded string course is of Milton stone, and now it is weathered and toned down it has a very solid appearance.
Photograph of the beating of the bounds of St Peter-in-the-East parish in 1905, with the parish priest and parishioners climbing over this wall on a ladder