It also contains the Grandpont Nature Park—a riverside park managed by Oxford City Council (grid reference SP510054).

The park covers 7.4 acres (3 ha) and was created in 1985 on the site of a gas works that was demolished in 1960.

The former railway bridge, used to carry coal from the main railway line across the River Thames to the older gas works in St Ebbes on the north bank, still stands, and is in use as a footbridge.

The name of the area derives from the Grandpont, a medieval stone causeway now known to survive within the core of the modern Abingdon Road for a distance of at least 700 metres south of the city centre.

[1] The causeway may have been first built in the Anglo-Saxon era, and rebuilt in the late 11th century[2] by the first Norman lord of Oxford, Robert D'Oyly I, crossing the low-lying ground south of the City, still very liable to winter flooding from the nearby River Thames.