Travel Guide of Oxford in United Kingdom by Influencers and Travelers
Oxford is a university city in Oxfordshire, England, with a population of 155,000. It is 56 miles northwest of London, 64 miles from Birmingham and 24 miles from Reading by road.
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1 - Christ Church
Christ Church is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Christ Church is a joint foundation of the college and the cathedral of the Oxford diocese, which serves as the college chapel and whose dean is ex officio the college head.
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2 - University Church of St Mary the Virgin
The University Church of St Mary the Virgin is an Oxford church situated on the north side of the High Street. It is the centre from which the University of Oxford grew and its parish consists almost exclusively of university and college buildings.
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3 - Sightseeing | Oxford
The perfect introductory tour of Oxford, led by a university researcher. Walk through the complex history of the beautiful city centre.
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4 - Bernwood Forest
9 km away
Bernwood Forest was one of several forests of the ancient Kingdom of England and was a Royal hunting forest. It is thought to have been set aside as Royal hunting land when the Anglo-Saxon kings had a palace at Brill and church in Oakley, in the 10th century and was a particularly favoured place of Edward the Confessor, who was born in nearby Islip.
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5 - Bodleian Library
The Bodleian Library is the main research library of the University of Oxford, and is one of the oldest libraries in Europe. With over 13 million printed items, it is the second-largest library in Britain after the British Library.
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6 - Merton Field
Merton Field is a grass playing field north of the main part of Christ Church Meadow and south of Merton College in central Oxford, England. To the west are Merton Walk and Christ Church, one of the Oxford colleges. To the east is the University of Oxford Botanic Garden. To the south is Broad Walk a wide path on the northern edge of Christ Church Meadow.
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7 - High Street
The High Street in Oxford, England, runs between Carfax, generally recognised as the centre of the city, and Magdalen Bridge to the east.
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8 - Port Meadow, Oxford
Port Meadow is a large meadow of open common land beside the River Thames to the north and west of Oxford, England.
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9 - Radcliffe Camera
The Radcliffe Camera is a building of Oxford University, England, designed by James Gibbs in neo-classical style and built in 1737–49 to house the Radcliffe Science Library.
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10 - Oxford University Museum of Natural History
The Oxford University Museum of Natural History, sometimes known simply as the Oxford University Museum or OUMNH, is a museum displaying many of the University of Oxford's natural history specimens, located on Parks Road in Oxford, England.
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11 - University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world's second-oldest university in continuous operation.
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12 - Bicester
18 km away
Bicester Village is an outlet shopping centre on the outskirts of Bicester, a town in Oxfordshire, England. It is owned by Value Retail plc. The centre opened in 1995. Most of its stores are in the luxury goods and designer clothing sector. The centre is the second most visited location in the United Kingdom by Chinese tourists, after Buckingham Palace.
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13 - Wantage
22 km away
Wantage is a constituency in Oxfordshire represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom by Conservative MP David Johnston.
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14 - Broughton Castle
33 km away
Broughton Castle is a medieval fortified manor house in the village of Broughton, which is about two miles south-west of Banbury in Oxfordshire, England, on the B4035 road. It is the home of the Fiennes family, Barons Saye and Sele.
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15 - Henley-on-Thames
34 km away
Henley-on-Thames is a town and civil parish on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, England, 9 miles northeast of Reading, 7 miles west of Maidenhead, 23 miles southeast of Oxford and 37 miles west of London, near the tripoint of Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire.
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16 - Ashdown House, Oxfordshire
34 km away
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17 - Reading
38 km away
Reading is a large, historic market town in Berkshire, South East England. It is in the Thames Valley at the confluence of the River Thames and River Kennet, and on both the Great Western Main Line railway and the M4 motorway.
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18 - Green Park Business Park
41 km away
Green Park is a business park near junction 11 of the M4 motorway on the outskirts of the English town of Reading. The park opened in 1999, and is currently owned by Mapletree.
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19 - Milton Keynes
47 km away
Milton Keynes is the only city and the largest settlement in Buckinghamshire, England, about 50 miles north-west of London. At the 2011 Census, the population of its urban area was almost 230,000.
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20 - New Bradwell
47 km away
New Bradwell is an Edwardian era village, modern district and civil parish in north-west Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. Together with Wolverton, it was built primarily to house the workers on the Wolverton railway works. The original village of Bradwell lies south of New Bradwell.
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21 - Beacon Hill
49 km away
Beacon Hill, near Loughborough, in Leicestershire, England, is a popular country park. It is one of several beacon hills in the United Kingdom. It is part of Beacon Hill, Hangingstone and Outwoods Site of Special Scientific Interest.
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Oxford, a city in south-central England, is built around its prestigious university, founded in the 12th century. The architecture of its 38 universities in the medieval centre of the city led the poet Matthew Arnold to nickname it "the city of dreaming spires".
It is home to some 22,000 students. It is only an hour's train ride from London and has almost 1,500 listed buildings, some of which date back to the 11th century.
As mentioned above, Oxford is known for its universities which you can visit for a fee. It is in one of its buildings that scenes from Harry Potter were filmed in the Divinity School, New College and Christ Church, whose great hall was the model for Hogwarts School. The themes of Oxford's museums reflect its academic past. On Broad Street, the History of Science Museum has nearly 20,000 exhibits. The most famous object is the blackboard that the physicist Alfred Einstein used on 16 May 1931 during a lecture at Oxford University.
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Frequently Asked Questions by Travelers planning a trip to Oxford
It is the administrative centre of the county of Oxfordshire in South East England, and as a regional city serves a hinterland extending to the Cotswolds. The famous University of Oxford, the oldest university in the English-speaking world, is based here.
It's the Thames which rises at Thames Head in Gloucestershire, flows eastwards towards Oxford and Reading, through London, for which it is famous, and finally into the North Sea.
Oxford University is the oldest university in England and one of the most prestigious in the world. The university is renowned for the quality of its teaching and has one of the richest libraries in the world.
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