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TOP 10 REASONS
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Why travel to Oxford: Find out the top 10 reasons to visit
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A SNEAK PEAK
A SNEAK PEAK
A SNEAK PEAK
A Sneak Peek into Oxford
- Oxford is one of Europe's oldest and illustrious university towns, and it has long battled Cambridge for academic supremacy in England.
- Its uninhibited spirit of exploration, many exquisite gardens, courtyards, university parks, and the frantic pace of its pedestrian zone and excellent cultural facilities combine into a one-of-a-kind setting.
- Two of Oxford's many tourist attractions include Carfax Tower, which offers excellent views of the city, and the ancient Covered Market, which has excellent shopping.
- Some university campuses now provide housing options, such as bed & breakfast, for a unique vacation experience.
- Various Oxford landmarks, including Christ Church College, where the dining room was closely reproduced for the Hogwarts Great Hall, were featured in the films, which may interest Harry Potter enthusiasts.
- Check out the (in)famous Headington Shark and a shark sculpture lodged headfirst in the roof of a small terraced house for something a little different.
- International Airport: Oxford International Airport
- Population - 151,600
- Currency: the pound sterling
- Time: UTC +1
- Driving side: right
- Main Electricity: 230 V
- Official Language: English
- Religion: Christian
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HIGHLIGHTS
HIGHLIGHTS
HIGHLIGHTS
Top Tourist Attractions in Oxford
- Take a tour of the Bodleian Library.
- Smell the roses in the University of Oxford Botanic Garden.
- Take a look inside the Oxford Castle and Prison.
- In the Pitt Rivers Museum, ponder the oddities.
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SEASONS TO TRAVEL
SEASONS TO TRAVEL
SEASONS TO TRAVEL
Best Months to Visit Oxford
- Oxford has a maritime temperate climate, which means that temperatures are pleasant.
- Summers: The greatest season to visit Oxford is from May through September, when the weather is mild and sunny, with temperatures hovering around 20°C.
- Winters: The average maximum temperature in Oxford is 14 degrees Celsius, with a minimum of 6 degrees Celsius.
- The coldest months are December and January, but snowfall is uncommon.
- Autumn: September-November is designated as autumn months, while March-May is designated as spring months.
- July and August are the busiest, with not only entering tourists but also a sea of residents walking the streets, adding to the summer rush.
- The Oxford Jazz Festival, The Wood Festival, English Music Festival, The Chocolate Festival, Oxfordshire Artweeks, and Dorchester-on-Thames Festival, to mention a few, all take place in April and May, making this a great time to visit Oxford.
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WORTH A VISIT
WORTH A VISIT
WORTH A VISIT
The Best Places to Visit in Oxford
Historic Oxford City Center
- Even though Oxford's central area is not very large, enough time should be set up to explore everything there is to see.
- The Carfax junction, where the city's four main streets converge, is a fantastic place to start your journey.
- The 14th-century Carfax Tower, a relic of the now-destroyed St. Martin's Church, offers spectacular city views.
- The Town Hall and Pembroke College, founded in 1624 but with origins reaching 1446, are well worth seeing.
- Modern Art Oxford, a local visual art gallery that focuses on modern and contemporary art exhibitions, hosts discussions, music, and movies regularly.
- The magnificent High Street of Oxford is lined with various magnificent architecture, including several of the city's well-known colleges.
- It's so wonderful that it's been dubbed "the prettiest street in England" by American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne.
St. Mary the Virgin's University Church
- While visiting Oxford, visit the University Church, also known as the University Church of St. Mary the Virgin (or just St. Mary's). Climbing its ornately decorated tower should be a highlight of your vacation.
- This vantage point, built-in 1280, provides spectacular views of the city and surrounding countryside.
- It was restored in 1462, and it faced the nave and Lady Chapel from 1490 and the stalls from 1466.
- Another notable feature is the porch, which you will have passed through when entering the church.
- You can still see bullet marks from Oliver Cromwell's armies' firearms during the English Civil War.
Christ Church Cathedral
- Although the current structure dates from the 12th century, Christ Church has designated a cathedral in 1546.
- The double arcading of the nave, which gives the sense of considerably higher height, is the most prominent element of the interior.
- The choir was built circa 1500, with fan vaulting overhanging keystones, when the church was enlarged to the north in the 14th century.
- The Thomas Becket window (1320) and five glass windows planned by Edward Burne-Jones and constructed by William Morris in 1871 can be found in the south transept.
- The St. Frideswide window (1858) and three 14th-century tombs of Lady Montacute, Prior Sutton, and John de Nowers and the ruins of Frideswide's shrine are also noteworthy (1289).
- The cathedral also houses the grave of philosopher George Berkeley (1681-1735), who gave his name to the California town of Berkeley.
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DISCOVER MORE
DISCOVER MORE
DISCOVER MORE
Oxford Off the Beaten Track
Christ Church College
- Christ Church, one of Oxford's largest colleges, was founded in 1525 by Cardinal Wolsey and re-formed by Henry VIII following his fall. Christopher Wren erected the Tom Tower in 1682, which houses a massive seven-ton bell known as Great Tom, which rings 101 times every evening at 9:05 pm (once for each member of the original college).
- Tom Quad, Oxford's largest courtyard, is named after the main square, which features a lovely fountain.
- The lower tower leads up to the hall, a beautiful dining room with a superb hardwood ceiling finished in 1529, through a fine staircase and fan vaulting.
- The walls are adorned with portraits of Henry VIII and notable college members, including William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania.
- Beyond the Deanery, where Charles I lived from 1642 to 1646, is Kill-Canon, a freezing tunnel where canons were thought to succumb to the cold.
- Kill-Canon leads to Peckwater Quad, which has a library with Cardinal Wolsey's drawings and keepsakes.
- Christ Church Picture Gallery is also a must-see for art lovers.
- This beautiful gallery houses a significant collection of 300 Old Masters paintings and 2,000 sketches.
Magdalen College
- Magdalen College was founded outside the municipal walls in 1458.
- The beautiful Magdalen Tower was built in 1482, and the Muniment Tower is the entrance to the chapel where the college's famed choir sings evensong.
- There are state chambers in the Founder's Tower with early-16th-century tapestries, and beneath them, a passage leads to the cloisters with bizarre figures known as "hieroglyphs." When rooms are available, Magdalen College also offers bed-and-breakfast options.
- A deer park called the Grove and a bridge leading across the River Cherwell into the Water Walks is located beyond the institution.
- The Oxford Botanic Garden, founded in 1621 and one of England's oldest, is located directly across from the college entrance.
- Plants from all across the world, including the Magdalen Rose Garden, can be found here.
- The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation of New York gave this lovely garden to honour the invention of penicillin, in which Oxford played a significant role.
- The Harcourt Arboretum, located nearby, is well worth a visit.
Radcliffe Square & the Bodleian Library
- In the heart of the city, Radcliffe Square is home to several of the city's most notable college buildings.
- The Old Schools Quadrangle (1613) and the Radcliffe Camera (1737), a dome that once housed the Radcliffe Library, are also located here.
- The 16-sided room on the bottom floor today serves as a reading room for the Bodleian Library, which was created in 1598 and is the country's first public library.
- Every book published in the United Kingdom, including two million volumes and 40,000 manuscripts, is placed here.
- The excellent Divinity School is also accessible from the library.
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CULTURE & TRADITIONS
CULTURE & TRADITIONS
CULTURE & TRADITIONS
Oxford Culture and Traditions
- Oxford, just a short distance west of London, is a diversified and historic city.
- It's a terrific place to live and study and a significant British and European centre for the arts, science, technology, and innovation.
- Oxford's beautiful architecture, particularly the city's iconic 'dreaming spires,' has inspired scholars, artists, writers, scientists, and filmmakers for ages.
- Oxford's complicated history has given it a distinct personality.
- A lively, inviting modern city surrounds the magnificent mediaeval centre of the historic University and its colleges.
- Oxford is a cosmopolitan and vibrant city with one of the most culturally diverse populations in the United Kingdom.
- It is home to two prominent colleges and 40,000 students worldwide, accounting for over a quarter of the city's population.
- There are parks, gardens, and meadows around Oxford, which is also surrounded by rolling countryside.
- With miles of gorgeous canals to explore, the rivers that meander through the city give rise to Oxford's famous rowing and punting traditions.
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FOOD FUN FASHION
FOOD FUN FASHION
FOOD FUN FASHION
Oxford: Food, Fun & Fashion Guide
FAST FOOD
#food
- There are plenty of fast-food restaurants in a student-heavy area. Instead of the obligatory McDonald's and KFC, seek out the basic cafes that serve more traditional British cooking.
- On Cornmarket Street, the West Cornish Pasty Company serves excellent versions of these traditional English turnovers with various savoury fillings.
- Fresh sandwiches loaded with prawns, sliced cucumbers, or egg salad are available at many different takeaway locations, including supermarkets, and are ideal for a picnic on a hot summer day.
- Food trucks located on the outskirts of town serve on-the-go diners, providing a variety of takeaway foods from India, Pakistan, and the Middle East and British classics like "toad-in-the-hole" (succulent sausages baked inside Yorkshire pudding batter).
OXFORD COVERED MARKET
#food
- Oxford's old covered market, which opened in 1774, is one of the city's most famous tourist attractions.
- It has several small shops selling cooked items to consume on-site or take away and its fruit, vegetable, meat, fish, and cheese outlets.
- Several possibilities include a "Brazilian Cheeseball" stand, a "Sooshe" bar, Nash's Oxford Bakery, David John's traditional butchery, and a meat pie shop.
- Pieminister is a popular eatery that serves a variety of freshly cooked, double-crust meat and veggie pies with "mash" (mashed potatoes), "groovy" (gravy), and "minty mushy peas" (just what they sound like).
PUB GRUB
#food
- The people who frequent Oxford's old pubs are as well-known as the drink they provide.
- You can sip a pint of British bitter or English ale where Thomas Hardy, C. S. Lewis, Graham Greene, the fictional Detective Inspector Morse, and other Oxford luminaries did.
- Pubs also serve food, and they're often the most incredible deals in Oxford for a complete (and hearty) meal.
- Fish-and-chips, Scotch eggs (hard-boiled eggs enclosed in sausage meat and deep-fried), "Ploughman's Lunch," and "jacket potatoes" with a variety of toppings: Pork, cheddar or blue cheese
Legge Carpets
#Fashion
- Legge Carpets, founded in 1974, has amassed a vast collection of oriental carpets, rugs, runners, Kilims, flatweaves, Jajims, pillows, and tribal weavings from traditional locations of carpet manufacture.
- The collection contains Turkish, Caucasian, Turkoman, Afghan, Indian, Tibetan, and Chinese rugs and Turkish, Caucasian, Turkoman, Afghan, Indian, Tibetan, and Chinese rugs, all of which are available for purchase.
- Traditional rugs and carpets are all created to the finest standards with top-grade hand-spun wool and natural dyes, giving them a vibrant appearance and unrivalled wearability.
- Designer works, such as work by Contemporary Rug Art designer Jan Kath, whose magnificent ever-evolving oeuvre takes up a prominent place in our exhibition and is a clear statement of the zeitgeist, are at the opposite end spectrum in modern carpets.
- Visitors are welcome to peruse rugs, carpets, and textiles online and enjoy the atmosphere at the Oxford Gallery in Summertown, where they can select a rug or use the extensive carpet library.
- Private persons, interior designers, and public entities are all invited to visit.
Salient
#Fashion
- They created a 4-way stretch Oxford shirt with the best fit you can imagine without the tailored price tag.
- Our Eucalyptus fabric is softer and more environmentally friendly than cotton.
- Unlike most other 'non-iron' shirts that use chemicals, our shirts are truly non-iron for the shirt's life due to the tiny smoothness of each fibre.
- Salient's Stretch Oxford shirt. The world's most stretchy shirt.
- It is tailored to your body's contours. A wonderful present for him.
Hinksey Park
#fun
- Hinksey Park, off Abingdon Road, is a magnificent green and watery retreat for people and wildlife, only a 15-minute walk or cycle ride from the centre of Oxford.
- Its avenues of Giant Redwood and Pine trees provide a one-of-a-kind and scenic setting for picnics, sports, and leisure.
- The park is very proud of its Green Flag designation. Keep Britain Tidy awards the Green Flag as the standard for parks and green spaces in England and Wales.
- It's a way of recognising and awarding the country's best green spots.
Zoo & Wildlife Parks in Oxford
#fun
- Go berserk with a fantastic array of gifts and experiences for animal lovers of all stripes.
- Meet lions, spiders, zebras, donkeys, snakes, horses, goats, crocodiles, and penguins, among other animals.
- At great places like Cotswold Wildlife Park and Crocodiles of the World, Britain's only crocodile zoo, you can get up and personal with your favourite animals.
- From rhinos and giraffes to sloths and meerkats, the Cotswold Wildlife Park has one of the best animal collections in the country.
- Cotswold Wildlife Park & Gardens is one of Oxfordshire's top attractions, with one of the country's most magnificent collections of zoo animals.
- Meet a giraffe face to face, take a stroll with lemurs, or watch rhinos graze on the Manor House lawns.
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NATURE & SAFARI
NATURE & SAFARI
NATURE & SAFARI
Oxford: Natural Beauty & Safari Adventures
- With its geological characteristics and ancient earthworks, Ardley Wood Quarry is a natural treasure trove in the spring and summer.
- The site is especially suitable for butterflies, as it is warm and sheltered, with thriving colonies of grizzled skippers, dingy skippers, and green hairstreaks.
- This quarry and a neighbouring railway cutting have geological characteristics of national significance, as well as a diverse range of animals.
- The site's Jurassic heritage is seen through the stratified exposed limestone rock faces (more than 160 million years ago).
- Ardley Wood Quarry is also archaeologically interesting due to mediaeval earthworks.
- Asham Meads is a magnificent stretch of grassland with uncommon communities of national and local botanical gems such as maroon-flowered great burnet, meadow fox-tail grass, and tubular water-dropwort.
- These magnificent meadows near Otmoor, Oxfordshire, are home to rare groups of national and local botanical gems.
- Asham Meads comprises three wet meadows (Upper Marsh, Lower Marsh, and Rowbottom), an oak plantation from the 1930s, a pond, hedges, and scrub, and is presumably named after the lost Otmoor village of Nash.
- Once upon a time, the meadows were ploughed into ridges and furrows. Maroon blooms of great burnet, dropwort, and meadow fox-tail grass cover the ridges of the north-eastern field, Rowbottom. Marsh-loving plants like ragged-robin and the unusual tubular water-dropwort grow in the wetter furrows.
- Common knapweed and classic meadow grasses such as crested dog's-tail and sweet vernal grass can be found on the hills of Upper and Lower Marsh.
- Pepper-saxifrage, yellow rattle, saw-wort, and several green-winged orchids are among the flowering plants.
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EVENTS & FIESTAS
EVENTS & FIESTAS
EVENTS & FIESTAS
Oxford Must-Attend Festivals and Events
- The Battle Proms, a highlight of Blenheim Palace's summer social calendar, are the ideal occasion to gather friends and family for a magnificent and memorable night out in a stunning setting at the world heritage site.
- The Battle Proms, Napoleonic cavalry and The Red Devils, the official display team of the British Army and Parachute Regiments, will put on an exciting day of performances.
- A toe-tapping warm-up act and champagne corks popping with their sing-along vintage vocals will also be part of the complete entertainment programme, preparing the audience for the full orchestral concert from the New English Concert Orchestra.
- The renowned Grace Spitfire, executing a beautifully orchestrated airborne performance, is heralded by the opening parts of the symphonic programme.
- Classical favourites such as the 1812 overture and Beethoven's Battle Symphony, presented as he composed it with 193 live firings of Napoleonic cannon creating tremendous percussion, are performed for the audience.
- The Henley Festival will celebrate its 40th anniversary from July 6 to 10, 2022.
- Henley Festival is a five-day private boutique black-tie event that celebrates the best of British and international music and arts.
- The festival is undoubtedly one-of-a-kind. It features a diverse programme ranging from pop to global music, classical to jazz, and includes art and food on par with the music.
- At Henley Festival 2020, you'll find a wide choice of dining and drinking options, from fine riverside dining to grazing and a slew of pubs scattered across the grounds.
- Oxfordshire's much-loved Cornbury Festival will occur from the 8th to the 10th of July 2022.
- The Cornbury Music Festival is a one-of-a-kind, meticulously crafted, top-notch, very English open-air festival designed for the entire family.
- The Cornbury Music Festival, like the best of England, is civilised, charming, and irresistible, a homegrown melting pot where music fans mingle with superstars and little old ladies who make exceptional cakes over pies and a glass of champagne.
- In other words, The Cornbury Music Festival is a welcoming gathering of people from all walks of life who enjoy traditional summer entertainment.
- Just a few examples are a country fair with a rock 'n' roll twist, a farmers' market with a dance floor, and a local carnival with a contemporary classic soundtrack.
- The Cornbury Music Festival 2022 will be held on the stunning Great Tew Park Estate in the Cotswolds.
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