Hi! I'm due to visit Oxford from Friday to Sunday and very much like to know where you all think I should go. I'd like to know the best places for must see sight seeing. Some good places to eat/drink. Erm, just anything anyone who knows the place would recommend to someone who has never been before and is only staying for a short while. Thanks alot!
2007-02-12 08:12:11 · 4 answers · asked by maxphran 1 in Travel ➔ United Kingdom ➔ Other - United Kingdom
Well I live in Oxford so I will answer that question. Well you can start by going to the information centre down Broad street, Oxford Story is a few shops down from there. The Oxford story is about the history of Oxford, you first get a film on student life there first, then you go into a tram and you will go back in time and you will experience what life was like in Oxford in the middle ages, you will have head phones on and you will see waxworks as you journey on to the present time. When you leave the Oxford story you will find yourself in ship street near to the oldest tower in Oxford attached to St Micheal's church, you can Clim the tower, Students and OAPs £1.20, Children are 90p and Adults are £1.80 for entering the tower, there is a lot of history attached to the tower. You can buy tour bus tickets at a slight discount at the tower form them. Then you can walk down st Aldates to Christ Church the college with the cathedral which makes Oxford a city and you can visit the college and see where they filmed Harry Potter, in the grand hall. There is also a painting of William Penn there, who founded Pennsylvania. Louis Carol was there and many other famous people too.
If you are low on cash and want a cheap day well why don't you go to the Ashmolean museum in Beaumount street, it is free, or you could go to the Natural science museum down parks road, they have the only remaining dodo in the world there, hence the saying as dead as a dodo. I think they have shrunken heads there too. If you have a car why don't you go to wolvercote to drink in the Troat pub you can sit outside and think about how many inspector Morse's were filmed there. If you don't have a car you can go to the "Eagle and Child" in St Giles and there you can think about C.S. Lewis and Tolkien as they used to meet in there. ST Johns is the richest college and also in St Giles their gardens there are often open to the public. If you have more than one day in Oxford why don't you venture 8 miles down the road to Woodstock to see Blenheim palace where Churchill was born, the gardens are open to the public all year round, but the house is only open certain times in the year. Blenheim is situated in a little Cotswold town called Woodstock, they have lots of teashops there, and there is also a free museum there too. There is also a bus museum on the way to Bladen which is were Churchill is buried. You can visit his grave.
2007-02-12 09:12:01 · answer #1 · answered by mellouckili 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wise one says,,at last someone viviting my hometown. If you start in carfax you can walk down cornmarket street veiwing original tudor buildings on your way to the st giles junction and see the martyrs memorial. from there you can see the oldest museam in the world the ashmoliam. theres also loads of other places such as a host of colledges, the oxford story(you'll love that), salters staemers on the royal river thames and loads more. And if your an ale drinker try half a pint of Hook Norton or old hooky as we know it,,,,,,enjoy yourself.
2007-02-12 16:25:45 · answer #2 · answered by "THE WISE ONE" 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the circus...i'm told oxford circus is very very busy and good.
2007-02-12 16:16:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.oxfordcity.co.uk/
2007-02-12 16:23:18 · answer #4 · answered by sabrina 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋