In article .com,
"Steve J, BWS" writes:
Incidentally, where is the Oxford site? I presume this is not Benson -
equally of notorious fame:-))

I would assume that it's the famous Radcliffe Observatory site, which I
believe has a record going back as far as 1815.

http://www.green.ox.ac.uk/index.php?id=75

That page includes: "In 1935, when the Observatory ceased to function as
such, the site became the Radcliffe Meteorological Station, and
observations have continued to be made from instruments at ground level
on the north lawn."
--
John Hall

"The covers of this book are too far apart."
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)