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It sometimes feels like only rich London commuters can afford to live in the nice bits!!
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94 Reviews Wadham College was founded in 1610, and is one of the largest colleges in Oxford. Its most famous scholar were architect Christopher Wren and physicist Robetr Boyle. In the 2pth century, director Tomy...
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34 Reviews As Christ Church is Oxford's biggest college, everything there is somehow overdimensioned. The front yard, called Tom Quad, is the size of a "normal" college, the meadow is so vast that you need half...
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17 Reviews Park End is probably the best place to go if you want fairly mainstream 'dance' music, AND R&B, AND cheesey-music-since-the-50's! It's got three rooms playing each of these categories of music, plus a...
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54 Reviews Yet another favourite pub of mine: Located conveniently in the city centre, "Far from the Madding Crowd" is still, well, far from the madding crowd of tourists. Nonetheless, it's a very nice place for...
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18 Reviews The River Cherwell (pronounced Char-well) is a quiet tributary of the Thames, to the east of the city centre. It is a popular place to go punting ...which basically means you hire a flat bottomed boat...
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19 Reviews Built between 1737 and 1749, Radcliffe Camera is one of the most unusual buildings in Oxford and the earliest example in England of a circular library. Bequeathed by John Radcliffe, physician to King...
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28 Reviews If you are in Oxford for a longer time, you might want to get a weekly pass for the bus. In that case, be careful! There are quite many different bus companies in Oxford, and tickets for one company...
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3 Reviews When you have seen the university buildings and are a bit tired of the touristy and noisy city, come to Iffley to enjoy its peace and quiet. Situated on the Thames, it can be reached by boat from the...
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33 Reviews So which is better ? Oxford or Cambridge. When it comes to academic rating, Cambridge battles it out on the world stage with Harvard, but Oxford struggles to make the top ten. So a clear win...
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3 Reviews Westgate Centre is a roofed shopping area containing a Department store, supermarket (Sainsbury's), and other shops. It runs from Queen Street by the Pblic Library to an exit in St. Ebbes, and an exit...
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10 Reviews Cornmarket Street, High Street, Queen Street and the surrounding area are Oxford's main shopping streets. Apart from the chains such as Gap, Mango, HMV, M&S, Curry's digital, Primark and so on, you...
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1 Review and 336 Opinions Single £150.00 Standard double/twin £165.00 Deluxe double/twin £205.00 Superior deluxe...
3 Reviews If Oxford is a genteel, civilised place, Cowley Road is its uncouthed, yet strangely alluring neighbour. Just 5 minutes walk from the town centre, but a million miles away in terms of atmosphere,...
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Unless you book an organised tour, it would be hard to visit this area other than by car, though a determined planner with time on their hands could make use of...
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Historic County of Oxfordshire
Filled with everything quintessentially 'English' - Oxford's spires, River Thames, Blenheim Palace, the rolling hills of the Cotswolds, the Ridgeway path and the White Horse, picturesque market towns...
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Country Houses & Thatched Roof Villages
Monday was spent enjoying the many pleasures that Oxfordshire has to offer. Although the mornings seemed to be getting more chilly, I had to scrape frost off the car windshield in Banbury, we had a......
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A glimpse at some Cotswold villages
Oxfordshire lies to the northwest, and within easy reach, of London. The star in its crown is indubitably Oxford itself, which one day I will revisit in order to describe on these pages, but for the...
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When we came to England, it was a Must to visit some castles. We started with the Blenheim Palace. It worth a visit !!
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Oxfordshire..............................
......is a typically English county, with tiny villages, good pubs, farmland and woodland (particularly beech). Oxford itself is worth a visit, if only to see the Ashmolean and Pitt-Rivers museums,...
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