About this experience
Navigate through hidden passages and alleyways and past the most famous colleges, monuments, and pubs on a walking tour hosted by the city’s tourism board through Oxford University and city center.
Highlights
- Admire Oxford's stupendous architecture and picturesque parks
- Find the city’s secret alleyways and passageways alongside an expert guide
- Walk past the favorite pubs of Inspectors Morse, Lewis, and Endeavour
- See Harry Potter film locations, New College and Christ Church, from the outside
- Discover the history hidden behind the walls of Oxford University
What's included
- Guide
- College visit on the 1pm & 2pm tour (subject to availability)
How to use
- Show Mobile Ticket
- At Redemption Counter
What to expect
Explore Oxford, the city of Dreaming Spires, on a walking tour with an expert guide from the city’s tourism board. Be shown the city’s most famous sights, uncover its hidden history, and enjoy all the astonishing stories about Oxford's key characters- real and fictional.
Meet your guide at the grand and very old Broad Street (once the city's ditch) let them know where you come from and any special Oxford interests you may have and they will do their best to incorporate those.
Go to Martyrs' Memorial, the scene of terrible religious retributions in medieval times, and on to the oldest tower at St Michael of the Northgate built in Saxon times. Then, make your way to the very heart of the University and the inspiration behind Harry Potter's Hogwarts School.
Pass by the pubs where the Inklings used to meet to discuss their writing as well as the pubs where Inspector Morse was filmed and the most popular student drinking holes in days of old.
Discover the city that is home to several of Britain's most famous literary characters - both fictional and real - such as JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis, Philip Pullman, and Colin Dexter as well as some of their most famous creations like Lyra and Will, and Inspector Morse.
Admire Oxford's stupendous architecture, gargoyles and grotesques, so wonderfully preserved from every historical period and style, and take a stroll through the breathtaking Radcliffe Square.
Cross the whimsical Bridge of Sighs as it's fondly known, just like the ones in Venice and Cambridge. See the Bodleian Libraries from the outside in the splendid Old Schools Quadrangle.
Learn about the city’s famous museums including the Museum of the History of Science, containing Einstein's blackboard, The Pitt Rivers, once home to shrunken heads, and the fabulous Ashmolean, which was one of the very first ever museums in the world.
If time allows, walk as far as to the beautiful Christ Church Meadows, where punting happens and cattle graze; a truly pastoral and quintessential English scene.
Terms & conditions
•For the afternoon (1pm & 2pm) tours your guide will try their best to visit a college but it may not always be possible. We try to visit one of St John's, Jesus or Wadham College.
• All the key University & Library buildings will be seen from the outside, but there is still plenty to enjoy in the fabulous architecture
• This tour takes place rain or shine
• This tour will take place rain or shine
• This tour has Visit England #SafeTravels accreditation
Groups sizes are small for your safety and comfort