We at The Stair grew up knowing only flats at Oxgangs Avenue
and for those with longer memories also the old prefabs.
However before either were built it was only farmland at Oxgangs in the first part of the twentieth century. The oxgang represented the amount of land which could be ploughed using one ox, in a single annual season.
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| Oxgangs Mains Farm-Ploughing in November As land was normally ploughed by a team of eight oxen, an oxgang was thus one eighth the size of a ploughland - thus Oxgang(s). 
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