Duration: 3 Hours Long
Languages available: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Arabic, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese
Availability: Any time, any day!
*If you are booking within the next two days or on a Saturday – please email us to make a reservation: bookings@footprints-tours.com*
Price:
14 + participant, please bookings@footprints-tours.com
If you are coming to Oxford for one day, you are going to want to see the best it has to offer. Our three hour private tour of Oxford ensures you get exactly that. Over the course of the tour, you will learn in detail the remarkable history of the University whilst exploring the Colleges, Libraries and grounds that express the antiquity of this institution. Your expert guide will be on hand to answer your questions and provide you with an expert commentary to accompany your trip.
Alongside this, we will include entrance to one of Oxford’s oldest Colleges and will take you into the treasury, which is home to some of the rarest books in the Universities Collection.
Suggested outline:
1st Hour
Introduction to Oxford and the University
Go inside one of the oldest Colleges at Oxford.
Student Life
Religion at Oxford University and the role of chapels
College pets and the University tortoise race
One of the largest single room bookshops in England
Sheldonian Theater
Going inside Divinity School The First Purpose Lecture Room at Oxford University also used in the filming of Harry Potter
Civil War and the King in Oxford
Bodleian Library
2nd Hour
Bridge of Sighs
Radcliffe Camera
All Souls – the most exclusive college at Oxford and it’s traditions
University Church of St Marys
C S Lewis & Tolkien
Quick Bathroom Break
3rd Hour
Christ Church 13 British Prime Ministers and the filming of Harry Potter
Toms Tower
Christ Church Meadows
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Merton College
Examinations Hall – this visually imposing building is famously where student go for their finals. We cover the outfits and the stressful process.
Burning of the Archbishops
If you are booking a private Oxford walking tour within the next two days or on a Saturday – please email us to make a reservation: bookings@footprints-tours.com