 To this end it owns several pieces of land at Boars Hill and elsewhere in and around Oxford.In 2007 and 2008 the Trust successfully opposed the Bodleian Library's proposal to build a new book depository that would have obstructed a view from Boar's Hill of Oxford's skyline that the poet Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) called the city's "dreaming spires".During its history OPT has been chaired by a number of prominent academic and other figures.