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Private guided tours of Oxford with a Blue Badge tourist guide



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Guided walking tours of Oxford, including the University, its colleges and its architecture; Inspector Morse, Harry Potter, J R Tolkien (Lord of the Rings), C S Lewis
(The Chronicles of Narnia) and Evelyn Waugh (Brideshead Revisited).

I will take you on a 2 hour walking tour of this famous university city, and tell you the history of the university from its mediaeval origins to the present day.

A visit to one of the colleges can usually be part of the tour.

 

The University and the city live side by side and depend on each other.

Find out what it means to be Town or Gown.

End the tour in Oxford's Covered Market, which has an atmosphere all of its own and where Town meets Gown over coffee.

Scholar door. Oxford university

A tour with a special interest theme . .
The colleges and other buildings will give you the framework for the University. But it is the people who give the University its character. So tours can have a personal theme such as its Scientists; or Writers; Women at Oxford; or Oxford's Architecture and its Architects.
Inspector Morse in Oxford

Follow the footsteps of the great detective Inspector Morse. Drink in the pubs where he found his inspiration (do not expect Lewis to pay). Feel the breath of Chief Superintendent Strange down the neck and never far behind. And much more.

AND NOW: Meet Inspector Lewis and his assistant Sergeant Hathaway.


Christ church. Steps to dining hall. Harry Potter
Join Harry Potter -
and other first year students on arrival at Hogwarts as they walk up the stairs leading to the dining hall.
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Evelyn Waugh's Oxford: Follow Charles Ryder and Sebastian Flyte and their friends in "Brideshead Revisited" during the years of their gilded youth.
Hear how student life was then; see how it is now'.

Evelyn Waugh's Oxford.  Students at an Oxford college

Ghost walk in Oxford
Ghost Walk
-A 90 minute evening walking tour, to introduce you to Oxford's ghoulish past in the side streets of the city.
clear Eagle and Child pub in Oxford.  J.R. Tolkien, C.S.Lewis . Inklings
In the Rabbit Room at the Eagle and Child, J.R. Tolkien, C.S.Lewis and their circle met every Tuesday morning in the 1930s. And the rest is history.
But why did they call themselves the Inklings?


A tailored stroll for conference delegates before dinner. Distance and details at your discretion.


Further afield .. Snowshill in the Cotswolds
 
The Cotswolds and Stratford - The birthplace of Britain's most celebrated playwright William Shakespeare.


Annetta Harvie. Tel: 01865-556742 |
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