A MEDIEVAL route through Cowley will reopen today after work was done to fix a 'dangerous lean'.

Oxford Mail:

Residents have been blocked from using the passage, which links the Grates and Hockmore Street, since November.

Read more about the history of the Cowley alleyway

A stonemason was contracted to reduce the height of the worst affected section of wall, approximately 20 metres, near to the ground level of the path.

Oxford Mail:

The wall was then rebuilt using as much of the existing stone as possible.

It is due to be reopened to the public this afternoon.