Victoria House Hotel is a charming standard class hotel with 14 rooms located in the heart of Oxford near a railway station.The non smoking hotel is completely renovated and is offering bar-restaurant and Haagen Dazs Café ...more
This Macdonald Hotel is located in the heart of Oxford, was built in 1864, and is approximately 48 miles from London Heathrow Airport, and 87 miles from London Gatwick Airport. Local attractions include the Ashmolean ...more
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The centre of Oxford is dominated by the University colleges, the most famous being Christ Church, Trinity, and Balliol (from a total of thirty six).
Most visitors orient themselves around Carfax, a crossroads in the very centre of the town. From here stretches The High to the east - "One of the world's great streets" (Nikolaus Pevsner), St Aldates to the south leading down to the river, Cornmarket to the north and Queen Street to the west - the latter two being the main shopping streets of Oxford.
Oxford is home to a world famous university, and most of the colleges and university buildings are located in the centre of Oxford, within easy walking distance of each other.
Don't miss the Bodleian Library, which has its own shop, and the nearby Radcliffe Camera, which is not open to the public, but is well worth a view from the outside.
Nearby, in Broad Street, is the Sheldonian Theatre, a venue for official university functions as well as a variety of concerts (tickets available from The Oxford Playhouse in Beaumont Street).
The University also owns the Ashmolean Museum on Beaumont Street (opposite The Playhouse), Britain's oldest public museum.
To get an overview before you begin walking, try climbing up Carfax Towerin the city centre.
Other views over the city are available from the University Church of St Mary the Virgin in the High Street, and St Michael Northgate, in Cornmarket. All of these vantage points have small admission charges.
In the centre An area with wide tree lined roads and large individual period houses built in the nineteenth century to house college dons and wealthy tradesmen in the Gothic style. It is within energetic walking distance (10-20 minutes) or a short bus ride of the University.
Summertown Further north is an alternative shopping area with plentiful parking. Roads become narrower but the houses have charm - many are Victorian and Edwardian.
Jericho Oxford University Press has its home here, the biggest employer in Oxford in the nineteenth century, encouraging the building of the terraced town cottages to house local workers. Many are well modernised and some are ingeniously enlarged with basement and roof conversions. There are some late night specialist food shops, interesting pubs and a good cinema on Walton Street.
